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Title: Garment Capitol Building blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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: Here are two heavy, bronze-covered first floor elevator doors at the Garment Capitol building which were bowed outward by the force of the blast that went down the elevator shaft as though it were a rifle barrel, according to investigators. Photo dated:October 18, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074579
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3395.
CARL0000077530
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27820
Subject: Elevators--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Clothing trade--California--Los Angeles
Clothing factories--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Garment Capitol Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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