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Title: Fire damages school, but 3-R's go on usual
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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: Flames are shown sweeping through a building at Roosevelt High School. The spectacular, fast moving blaze, broke out early in the roof above the third floor, destroying three classrooms and damaging five others. Despite the first damage, classes went on. No school records were destroyed. Photo dated: January 25, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039950
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1811.
CARL0000043852
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12267
Subject: Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schools--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Schools--Fires and fire prevention
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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