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Title: Hawthorne apartment building explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
A young girl and an elderly female, victims of a Hawthorne apartment explosion, cover themselves with blankets as they sit in a police car awaiting further information on their apartment building, which was located on 138th Street. Photograph dated December 1987.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 34 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095628
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b007_f5_i31
CARL0005107035
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30587
Subject: Children--California--Hawthorne
Women--California--Hawthorne
Buildings--Evacuation--California--Hawthorne
Explosions--California--Hawthorne
Gas-pipes--California--Hawthorne
Apartments--California--Hawthorne
Dwellings--California--Hawthorne
Hawthorne (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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