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Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924

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Title: Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1924
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 of Coroner Frank Nance holding an inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls. Nance is seated at a table (2nd from left) facing a man in uniform on the other side of the table. A man in the foreground reads a document in his lap and other men seated against the wall observe.
Text from negative sleeve: Hope Development Home Inquest.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10550
ark:/21198/zz002hbj95
Subject: Mentally disabled children--Health & welfare--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Coroners--California--Los Angeles
Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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