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Title: Spectators watching a fire at an Auto Show, 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 Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: A crowd watches smoke billowing from what used to be the auto show exhibition tents. To the left a sign reads "Autoshow." Individuals cross the street to join the crowd. A long hose lies on the street. Reported 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.
Text from negative sleeve: Auto show fire. 3/??/29
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3691_G222
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Language: English
Subject: Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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