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Title: Blast rocks plant here, five injured
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
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.
Photograph caption dated February 16, 1952 reads, "Smelting Furnace Blows Up, Spews Five Men With Hot Metal - Fireman Extinguishes Fire After This Aluminum Smelting Furnace Exploded at Berg Metals Co., Burning Five Men, Three Seriously."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099400
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112160
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30375
Subject: Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Explosions--California--Vernon
Debris--California--Vernon
Industrial facilities--California--Vernon
Factories--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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