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Title: Persons killed in blast, county morgue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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: The bodies of 15 persons who were killed in the O'Connor plant blast are shown in the county morgue. Coroner Ben Brown announced that he would call a mass inquest into their deaths. The inquest may last two or three days. Photo dated: February 21, 1947.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046664
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 645.
CARL0000050782
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16633
Subject: O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Industrial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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