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Title: Men with shovels during 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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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.
Men with shovels combat a fire in Griffith park in the photo.
Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Parks, Griffith Park Fires 2
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6096
ark:/21198/zz002cw7t3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Firefighting equipment--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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