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Title: Wreck of Ferris Wheel at Venice fire Dec. 21, 1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-12
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A man with a fire hose spraying the ruins of the Ferris Wheel on the Abbot Kinney Pier in Venice, California, which burned in a fire on December 20, 1920.
"Wreck of Ferris Wheel at Venice fire Dec 21, 1920"--text, on item. Title and date transcribed from item. One fireman lost his life. The fire was started on December 20, 1920, by a gas heater explosion in the Dance Pavilion. Account of the effects of the fire was transcribed from related item.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.7 x 13.7 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20153
Subject: Piers
Ruins
Fires
Abbot Kinney Pier (Venice, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Amusement rides
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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