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Title: Man investigating 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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Man in hat checks notes at the site of the Griffith Park fire.
An estimated 48 people are dead from a fire in Griffith Park canyon that firefighters suspect was caused by the spark from a discarded cigarette when the winds shifted.
Photograph related to the article, "Workers Trample Comrades in Dash to Escape Death-Dealing Griffith Park Brush Fire," Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 1933: 6.
Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Parks, Griffith Park Fires 2
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6095
ark:/21198/zz002cw7sk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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