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Title: Torrance car dump fire
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Aerial view of a fire that broke out in an unidentified Torrance area car dump. The location is not known, but there appears to be a major thoroughfare running vertically along the left, and another large street along the right. Photograph dated June 18, 1957.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00095807
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 378-1; GPC_b24_f3_i32 (Photographic print)
CARL0005075010
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6092
Subject: Industrial facilities--California--Torrance
Automobile graveyards--California--Torrance
Industrial sites--California--Torrance
Industries--California--Torrance
Fires--California--Torrance
Torrance (Calif.)--Aerial views
Torrance (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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