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Title: Home burns
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated January 1, 1959 reads, "Smoldering embers are all that remains of this house which was located on Glenview road in Topanga Canyon. Eighty homes were burned as fire in area blackened estimated 10,000 acres and forced evacuation of thousands. Disastrous fire continued to rage unchecked today."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114953
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f21_i2
CARL0005294404
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47900
Subject: Fires--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Dwellings--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Lost architecture--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Ruins--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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