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Title: Home ripped by gas blast in suicide try
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
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 November 6, 1952 reads, "This is the shambles that remained after a gas blast ripped home to pieces at 3446 Brandon street in East Pasadena. Police say blast resulted from an attempted suicide and brought serious injury to Mrs. Anna May Potter, 37. Doctor reported to police that she told him she wished she had died, and that she had poured shellac on her clothes before turning on gas."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 35 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099406
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112167
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30382
Subject: Suicidal behavior--California--Pasadena
Debris--California--Pasadena
Explosions--California--Pasadena
Dwellings--California--Pasadena
Lost architecture--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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