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Title: How today's atomic blast looked in Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
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: A Firestone Tire and Rubber Company building in downtown Los Angeles is lit up by atomic testing in Nevada. Photograph caption, dated May 7, 1952, "Today's atomic blast on Yucca Flat proving grounds in Nevada was plainly visible to early risers at 5:15 a.m. in Los Angeles. Photo taken from the roof of the Herald-Express building, shows blast lighting up the northeastern horizon."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036826
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980
CARL0000039631
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11773
Subject: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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