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Fountain of the World headquarters reduced to debris after a bomb-blast destroyed the two story building in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley, 1958

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Title: Fountain of the World headquarters reduced to debris after a bomb-blast destroyed the two story building in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley, 1958
Date Created and/or Issued: December 10, 1958
1958-12-10
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: Daily Mirror: EXTRA - two-story stone building which housed headquarters of the Fountain of the World sect is reduced to a pile of debris after bomb blast early this morning. explosion also caved in the wall of an adjoining dormitory in which 10 boys were sleeping. The group building is in a hilly, wooded section.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b367_114115a
ark:/21198/zz001400xb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ruins--California--1950-1960
Disaster
Bombings--California
Cults--California--Ventura County
Fire fighting--California--Ventura County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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