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Title
Fire at 201 North
Creator
Mitchell
Date Created and/or Issued
1955-01-01
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description
5 images. Fire at 201 North [South] Norton Avenue, Los Angeles, 1 January 1955. Louise Crawford (dead in fire)
Norman Sterry (father of dead woman).
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Mitchell. Date: 1955-01-01. Assignment: Fire, 1 fatal., 201 S. Norton, L.A. 70: Louise Crawford dead in fire at 201 S. Norton. 69: Norman Sterry (father of dead woman walking out of house). Dining room with burned chairs staked on table and silver ware on table. Fire place in living room. Exterior of home at 201 S. Norton." Please note that the address is 201 North Norton Avenue
as of February 2014, the house is still there (GPS coordinates: 34.074775,-118.317553).
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : negatives, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
image/tiff
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
EXM-N-11313-002~1...~5
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m24559
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-11313-002~1.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Fires
Fires--Casualties
Time Period
1955-01-01
Place
201 North Norton Avenue
34.074775,-118.317553
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
11313-002 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

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