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Officials or family members visit a burned out area of Griffith Park where workers died, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Officials or family members visit a burned out area of Griffith Park where workers died, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1932
1932-10
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.
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.
Eleven men in trousers, shirts and ties and hats, and one woman in a dress, hat and pearls, stand on a burned out slope in Griffith Park. One man holds his hand to his face and another takes notes.
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles, Parks, Griffith Park, Fires
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6104
ark:/21198/zz002cw83q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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