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Title: Homemade shelter
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
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: Dr. Libby stoops in the entrance to his homemade shelter, shovel in hand. Burlap sacks filled with sand are on top of a wooden beam as other sacks are stacked up for walls. Photo caption reads: "Dr. Willard F. Libby and his 'poor man's shelter', shovels dirt to fill burlap sacks for shelter. He believes it will protect his family for 48 hours; baffle wall is removed for photo". Photo dated: Oct. 11, 1961.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00071949
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8090.
CARL0000074998
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27399
Subject: Libby, Willard F
Fallout shelters--California--Los Angeles
Sandbags--California--Los Angeles
Burlap--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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