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Title: Don't do it yourself
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Creator: Clarke, Ed J
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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.
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated October 16, 1957 reads "Lucita does some dangerous tinkering with toaster. Fire from faulty electrical products are one of principal causes of home fires. Misuse of electricity is third greatest U.S. fire cause. Total of 99,900 fires were started electrically last year." See images 00155231 through 00155235 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00155233
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d059_f13_i5
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/128277
Subject: Beauty contestants
Young women
Fire prevention
Safety education
Dwellings--Fires and fire prevention
Electric toasters
Electric apparatus and appliances--Fires and fire prevention
Tools
Granada Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960

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