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Title: Plumes of smoke from the Griffith Park fire, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1933
1933-10
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
View of smoke rising from the fires from just beyond the mountains that are covered in trees.
Dozens are dead and many more are injured from a fire in Griffith Park canyon that firefighters suspect was caused by the spark from a discarded cigarette when the winds shifted.
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, FIRE, 1929 1 discolored (try to scan)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6087
ark:/21198/zz002cw7hf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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