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Title: Puente building damaged by blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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 December 21, 1951 reads, "Heavy damage from a gas explosion early today in building on Main street in Puente is pictured above. Cafe at left was damaged most. Doorway at right is entrance to upstairs hotel where 11 persons were sleeping. Only one was injured."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099399
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112159
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30374
Subject: Explosions--California--La Puente
Buildings--Blast effects--California--La Puente
Debris--California--La Puente
Restaurants--California--La Puente
Hotels--California--La Puente
Men--California--La Puente
Streets--California--La Puente
Neon signs--California--La Puente
La Puente (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs

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