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Title
Borate swoop
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Miller, Bob
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated June 27, 1964 reads, "A borate bomber swoops low over the Tujunga hillside near 10284 Haines Canyon Ave., to dump a load of water and borate solution on the season's first major brush fire. Some 40 acres went up in smoke."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00117503
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d020_f20_i20
CARL0005343709
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/50829
Subject
Fires--California--Tujunga (Los Angeles)
Airtankers (Forest fire control)--California--Los Angeles
Airplanes--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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