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Title: Mystery blast shatters windows
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: O'Day, George
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated October 29, 1951 reads, "Melanie Johnson, 8, and her brother, Kim, 6, look at one of the windows in their Santa Monica home, which were broken by a mystery explosion today. A gang of bomb-manufacturing juvenile was blamed for the blast. It was the fifth such blast since Thursday."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 19 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099397
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112157
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30373
Subject: Brothers and sisters--California--Santa Monica
Debris--California--Santa Monica
Explosions--California--Santa Monica
Dwellings--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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