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Title: Biltmore Hotel fire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Walker, Bill
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: Photo shows the charred interior of a Biltmore Hotel room after the fire. Firemen chopped down walls in back of the hotel's galleria to put out the fire. Behind the blackened wall is the Galleria Room where $1,000,000 worth of paintings escaped destruction. December 25, 1954.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039104
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1707.
CARL0000043997
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12334
Subject: Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Paintings
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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