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Title: Detectives investigate explosion at Japanese Consul Ken Wakasugi’s home, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: September 14, 1925
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.
Two detectives stand on the sidewalk outside Consul Wakasugi’s craftsman home.
An explosion shook the home of Japanese Consul Ken Wakasugi when his cook, V. M. Ueyama, was using the incinerator. Ueyama suffered from burn injuries.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Explosion at Consul’s Home,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1925: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: Consuls, foreign, L. A. Japan, Explosion X
Handwritten on negative: Home of Jap [sic] Consul
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1704
ark:/21198/zz002dc6wb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Consuls--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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