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Title: Blast rips Glendale apartment house, woman blown from bed
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: O'Day, George
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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 also used in article dated May 26, 1950.
Photograph caption dated May 26, 1950 reads, "Part of the damage to the El Patio apartment house at 123 East Windsor road, Glendale, is pictured above after an explosion ripped the building early today. Five apartments were damaged. Mrs. Ethel W. Grissam was blown from bed and thought a bomb had exploded. Mrs. Lucille L. Hanson was injured. Agnes Hindman, one of the neighbors aroused as the blast rocked the neighborhood, inspects the damage, above. Accumulated gas was blamed for the blast."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099385
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005111596
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30348
Subject: Women--California--Glendale
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Glendale
Explosions--California--Glendale
Debris--California--Glendale
Apartments--California--Glendale
Apartment houses--California--Glendale
Architecture, Domestic--California--Glendale--Spanish influences
Glendale (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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