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People and their vehicles gather on a road near the brush fire site in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: People and their vehicles gather on a road near the brush fire site in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [December 20, 1929]
1929-12-20
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
A cloud of smoke from a fire in Griffith Park spans the image, thickening at center at right. Foliage along the bottom edge in the foreground slopes down a hillside and meets a road in the distance at center. The road is viewed from above and enters frame from the lower right corner, stretching upwards towards center. At the end of the road, dozens of cars are parked. People stand amongst the vehicles, scattered into small groups. To the left, dozens of people are visible fleeing down a hillside. Behind them, flames rise. Hills surround and rise from the road at the base of the canyon. They are mostly obscured by the cloud of smoke.
This photograph is similar to another one of the 1929 fire in Griffith Park captioned, “Griffith Park Fire Taken at its Height Yesterday from Western Avenue Entrance to Park. (Times photo.),” Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1929: A10
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "GRIFFITH PARK FIRE HAVOC CHECKED IN HARD BATTLE: One Killed and Many Hurt Before Weary Army Subdues Blaze; Loss Total Runs High," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1929: A1
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, FIRE, 1929 [handwritten on attached note:] 1 discolored (try to scan)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6092
ark:/21198/zz002cw7p1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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