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Title: Demonstrating a modern McCaa oxygen apparatus
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: K.S. Butler, foreman miner of the United States Bureau of Mines, demonstrates a modern McCaa oxygen apparatus which allows working in the deadliest of gas for a period of more than 2 1/2 hours. Watching the demonstration are County Fire Captains: John H. Carroll: W.H. Rowell; A.J. Kelly; William Heldorn; H.G. Wolf; and G.G. Griswold. G.M. Kintz at the extreme right is explaining the appratus. Photo dated: October 26, 1927.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00038992
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1656.
CARL0000044004
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12341
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Fire Department
United States.--Bureau of Mines
Fire departments--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Breathing apparatus
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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