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Title: Fire destroys film director's hillside home
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Robbins, Jeff
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: 1963
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 article dated August 27, 1963 partially reads, "Movie director Abner Biberman's $50,000 Studio City home was destroyed early today by a fire which, for a while, threatened to engulf the surrounding hillside brush...The 56-year-old director and his family were chased from the burning house about 2:30 a.m. after Mrs. Biberman discovered the blaze in the kitchen of the home at 3515 Coldwater Canyon Ave."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00119008
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d023_f5_i11
CARL0005379056
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52329
Subject: Biberman, Abner,--1909-1977--Homes and haunts
Fires--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Studio City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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