Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Hardware store fire at Long Beach, 26 November 1958. Dooley's Hardware Mart 5000 Block, Long Beach Boulevard. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Emery. Date 1958-11-26. Reporter: Emery to RW. Assignment: $100,000 hardware store fire. 36/37/54/55/48: Long Beach city firemen working at fire which destroyed garden shop section of Dooley's Hardware Mart in 5000 block of Long Beach Boulevard 10:12p to midnight 11/25. Closeup two firemen on hose & nozzle: they have climbed to top of stack of barbecue motors (covered with tarpaulin) to fight fire."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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