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Title: $1,000,000 art escapes fire in Biltmore Hotel
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Walker, Bill
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: A $10,000 fire swept through a section of the Biltmore Hotel, near the Cowie Art Gallery where 1500 paintings worth more than $1,000,000 were on display. In front is a section of the gallery, with its many paintings, which narrowly escaped destruction. Arrow points to nearby room ruined by the fire. Photo dated: December 25, 1954.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039103
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1707.
CARL0000043996
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12333
Subject: Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Art museums--California--Los Angeles
Paintings
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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