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Title
Peat bed fire investigation
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Bentley, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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
Defense Attorney N. S. Story, center, shows Judge William Frederickson, to the right, a piece of peat from the Baldwin bed on October 20, 1927. The man in the white shirt is one of the defendants, R. E. Heath. The location is at the south end of Hauser Avenue at the foot of Baldwin Hills.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045552
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 370.
CARL0000049574
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15925
Subject
Fires--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Peat bogs--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Oil fields--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Actions and defenses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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