US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
A sports car, or roadster, parked on the sidewalk, with its hood burned through exposing the engine and steering mechanisms. Behind it are shells of approximately four other obscured by smoke. Two individuals stand in the rubble to the right and behind this featured car. Image appears with the photo group titled "Panoramic View of Auto Show Grounds Taken During $1,250,000 Fire," Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1929: 15. Handwritten on negative: Auto Show Fire 1929 Text from negative sleeve: Auto show fire. 1929 Text from newspaper caption: Here are shown all that remained of shining new automobiles when flames swept over them yesterday in auto show tents at Washington and Hill Streets. But few cars were dragged outside fire zone because of sudden fury of flames.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3691_G213 ark:/21198/z1g50h3h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles Fires--California--Los Angeles
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