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Title: Fire trucks parked outside Dura Steel Products Co., Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 22, 1940
1940-02-22
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.
Fire trucks parked outside the fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co. An electrical short circuit ignited 20 barrels of highly flammable paint thinner. The fire destroyed the plant and left approximately 100 employees without a job.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fire - LA - 8th and Santa Fe., LA Dura Steel Products Co.; 2-22-40.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 8th and Santa Fe fire.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027zvsh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Dura Steel Products Co
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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