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Title: Topanga Canyon fire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
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: Soldiers are shown working on a fire break on November 8, 1943, to prevent the raging Topanga fire flames from spreading to another area. About 3000 fire fighters are battling the blazes in the Santa Monica mountains alone.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057131
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 8140.
CARL0000061299
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22251
Subject: Soldiers--California--Los Angeles County
Fires--California--Los Angeles County
Mountains--California, Southern
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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