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Title: Angelenos watch atomic blasts from Nevada
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated June 4, 1953 reads, "Evidence that today's atomic bomb, detonated at Yucca Flat, Nevada, was the most powerful of all in the series is revealed in this picture taken here. The sky is as bright as day, but even more notable is the fact that downtown buildings are not only silhouetted, as in previous atomic explosions, but actually are illuminated on this side, the side farthest away from blast source."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082065
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980
CARL0000081086
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25193
Subject: Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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