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Title: Havoc created by fierce Glendale apartment blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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: Photograph caption dated May 26, 1950 reads, "Terrible shambles created by mysterious explosion which ripped through the apartment house is shown in this graphic photo of twisted steel, girders and beams in basement near blast source. Police said cause of explosion was mystery."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099386
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005111597
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30350
Subject: Buildings--Blast effects--California--Glendale
Debris--California--Glendale
Apartments--California--Glendale
Apartment houses--California--Glendale
Explosions--California--Glendale
Lost architecture--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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