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Title
Fire hydrant geyser
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
1956
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
Caption dated April 13, 1956 reads, "Bystanders crowd near as water spouts high after M. E. Ramsey, 10251 Langmuir Ave., Sunland, skidded on slick pavement and his car overturned shearing off hydrant in front of 10054 Sunland Blvd. Water shot 100 feet in air."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00113067
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d013_f2_i12
CARL0005308211
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48545
Subject
Hydrants--California--Los Angeles
Hydrants--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Sunland (Los Angeles)
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Sunland Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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