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Title: Explosion at Third Street
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated December 17, 1948 reads, "A violent explosion, caused by accumulated gas fumes, blew two walls out of this frame rooming house at 1913 West Third street. Two men were injured."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 19 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099373
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112114
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30354
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Gas-pipes--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Westlake (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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