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Title: Boys playing with matches start fire, 1952
Creator: Rustan
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952-08-19
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: 3 images. Boys playing with matches start fire, 19 August 1952. D.B. Grant (Battalion Chief Los Angeles Fire Department)
Alvin Lewis -- 7 years (started fire at 520 San Julian Street while playing with matches.
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Rustan. Date: 1952-08-19. Reporter: Cowles. Assignment: Boys playing with matches start fire. l. to r., 1/2/81: Battalion Chief D.B. Grant of L.A. Fire Dept. talks to Alvin Lewis, 7, after boy started fire at 520 San Julian St. while playing with matches".
Type: image
Format: 3 photographs : negatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m21375
EXM-N-9675-013~1...~3
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m21375
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-9675-013~1.jpg
Language: English
Time Period: 1952-08-19
Place: 520 San Julian Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 9675-013 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
examiner-m1663

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