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Title: Topanga Canyon fire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: Aerial view of the brush fire as it swept through Topanga Canyon at the height of the blaze on November 4, 1948. More than 25 homes were destroyed. Pushed by strong wind, the blaze raced down the canyon toward the Pacific shoreline.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00045944
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8140
CARL0000050544
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16467
Subject: Forest fires--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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