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Title
Classroom without a roof
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
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
Firemen are shown surveying the roof of a Roosevelt High School building, which collapsed during a spectacular fire. The blaze destroyed three classrooms and damaged five others. Damage was estimated at $50,000. Photo dated: January 26, 1949.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00039948
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1811.
CARL0000043853
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12268
Subject
Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schools--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Schools--Fires and fire prevention
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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