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Title: Buildings on hill in Griffith Park during a 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.
The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
A house and a shack on a hill in Griffith Park with smoke all around.
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Parks, Griffith Park, Fires
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6101
ark:/21198/zz002cw805
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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