Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated December 5, 1947 reads, "Splinters and rubble are all that's left of two-story home at 2002 Virginia road today after fumes of deadly cyanide gas being used to fumigate building exploded. Three workers were injured, one of them blown through wall of home into house next door."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Buildings--Fumigation--California--Los Angeles Fumigants Debris--California--Los Angeles Explosions--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles) West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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