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Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

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Title: Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: between 1925 and January 14, 1938
1925/1938-01-14
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fire at Goodwill Industries in Baker Block
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Goodwill Industries fire Baker Block
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025grb7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lifestyle
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Goodwill Industries of America
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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