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Title: Firefighters at an auto show fire, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: March 5, 1929
1929-03-05
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Five firefighters hose down an inflamed car. Only the scaffolding of the exhibition tent remains around them. Reported on in "Fire Sweeps Auto Show; Loss Totals $1,250,000: Spectators Escape Without Panic; Spark Makes Fiery Furnace of Cars Housed in Four Tents," Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1929: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Auto Show Fire 1929
Text from negative sleeve: Auto show fire. 1929
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3691_G218
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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