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Title: Big-light' goes on over L.A. as atom bomb explodes
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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 caption dated February 22, 1955 reads, "Street lights of the city look like little stars in comparison as the monstrous blast in Las Vegas desert 300 miles away throws light over mountains."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082067
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980
CARL0000081088
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25211
Subject: Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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