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Title
Buildings on fire, Watts Riots
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
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
View, possibly taken from a helicopter, shows several buildings on fire at the same time, during the rioting in the Watts area.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036445
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039436
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11578
Subject
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Riots--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Commercial buildings--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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