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Title: Topanga Canyon fire victims
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: More than 2000 persons were evacuated from their homes along the new road in upper Topanga Canyon on November 4, 1948, as the fire raced toward the canyon shopping settlement. The photo shows some of the evacuees at the shopping center.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057062
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 8140.
CARL0000060772
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22173
Subject: Topanga Shopping Center
Evacuation of civilians--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Fires--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Shopping centers--California--Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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