Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A chimney stands alone among the charred remains of a home, once nestled beside a winding road. This photograph appears with the headline, “In the Wake of the Brush fire that Ravaged Area Around Topanga Canyon,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov 1938: 18. Text from newspaper caption: The above picture shows a turn in the Topanga canyon road where a group of cottages once stood. Now only heaps of debris remain. At right is a close-up of the ruins of several of the cabins lower in the canyon. Text from negative sleeve: 15198 1938 Topanga Malibu Fire 2
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