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Title: Explosion at Air Reducation Pacific Corporation plant
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated March 3, 1949 reads, "Smoldering ruins litter the yard of the Air Reducation [sic] Pacific Corporation's plant in Vernon today following a terrific explosion which set 1000 acetylene tanks on fire. The fire sent huge clouds of smoke skyward, visible for miles. In foreground are seen some of the exploded tanks."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099376
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112116
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30355
Subject: Acetylene industry--California--Vernon
Debris--California--Vernon
Industrial facilities--California--Vernon
Industrial sites--California--Vernon
Explosions--California--Vernon
Explosives--California--Vernon
Acetylene--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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