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Title: Aftermath of a fire along a main business street, Lancaster, 1935
Contributor: Booth, Thelma
Date Created and/or Issued: July 28, 1935
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.
Photograph documents the remains of buildings ruined by fire along a main business street in Lancaster. Two men (one possibly assisting with fire fighting efforts) are viewed at right. Photographed by Thelma Booth, Lancaster resident.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Fire in Historic Lancaster Causes Loss of $100,000: Five Stores Destroyed. Blaze Fanned by Desert Wind. Three Men Injured Fighting Flames in Town's Main Business Street," 29 Jul. 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 1271. Box 1. Scene in Lancaster, Calif. [Stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10218
ark:/21198/zz002hb4vn
Subject: Fires--California--Lancaster
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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