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Title
Survey wreckage after water heater explosion spread havoc
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
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
1949
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
Photograph caption dated March 25, 1949 reads, "Mrs. Frank Wilson and sister, Mrs. Harry McCombs, look over debris with neighbors." The article partially reads, "A laundry boiler explosion that wreaked havoc with a Van Nuys neighborhood and narrowly missed spelling death for a mother and her baby was under arson squad investigation today. Minutes before the blast tore through a self-service laundry at 6416 Vesper Ave., last night, Mrs. Frank Wilson with her 14-month-old daughter, Beverly, had left the structure in which they rent an apartment. There was no one in the building when a defective water heater in a stucco leanto shed at the rear exploded....Fire officials said it was miraculous that no one was injured in the vicinity since the blast was felt for many blocks and stucco, timber and other debris was hurled several hundred feet."; See images #00113605 through #00113607 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00113605
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d014_f23_i21
CARL0005285844
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47589
Subject
Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Steam-boiler explosions
Self-service laundries--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Night photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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