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Title: Dangerous duty, destroying a would-be disaster
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
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: Forty-eight, 20-year-old containers of potentially explosive ether were found in a Hermosa Beach warehouse, which were once part of a 200-bed portable field hospital. Sheriff's bomb squad took the ether four miles north to Dockweiler Beach, packed the cans in sand, and detonated the containers. Photograph dated June 17, 1982.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 31 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095582
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b007_f2_i56-12
CARL0005103207
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30467
Subject: Explosives--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Beaches--California--Playa del Rey (Los Angeles)
Bombs--California--Los Angeles
Playa del Rey (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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