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Title: It's a "Quake"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; The word "Quake" has been added to the photograph for publishing purposes.; Photograph included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner”
A man is shown painting antique grandfather clocks during an earthquake in Southern California. The photographer has purposefully made it appear as if the image is shaking, in honor of the Manix earthquake (6.2), which was centered near Barstow on April 10, 1947.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084128
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 528
CARL0002884213
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25946
Subject: Earthquakes--California, Southern
Longcase clocks
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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