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Title: Mint Canyon blaze threatens homes
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: 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 was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated August 3, 1955 reads "Smoke and flames billow behind houses in the Forest Park area of Mint Canyon, 10 miles east of Newhall, as fire creeps to within 25 yards of the homes. Householders wet down roofs to protect homes from fire which started in unused cabin in Moxley subdivision."; See images #00143218 through #00143219 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00143218
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f7_i17
CARL0005787225
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71522
Subject: Fires--California--Santa Clarita
Dwellings--California--Santa Clarita
Brush--California--Santa Clarita
Smoke--California--Santa Clarita
Automobiles--California--Santa Clarita
Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita, Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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