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Title: Los Angeles' atomic dawn
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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 March 7, 1955, reads, "This is another version of how the atomic bomb blast in Nevada looked over Los Angeles from the roof of the Statler Hotel. Note the sharpness of City Hall (right background), the Richfield Building (right foreground) and other buildings. Ridge of mountains is also sharply outlined."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036831
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980; HE-000-964 4x5
CARL0000039635
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11777
Subject: Atlantic Richfield Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Statler Hilton Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Offices buildings--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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