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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
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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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