Image / O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp., exterior

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Title: O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp., exterior
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Rode Photo Service
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: Exterior view of O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp.'s plant as it looked before it was blown up to bits by an atom-like explosion. The arrow points to a section of the building next door, which still stands. Section at left was completely destroyed by the explosion, in which 15 persons were killed and hundreds injured. Photo dated: February 21, 1947.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046678
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 645.
CARL0000050776
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16629
Subject: O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Industrial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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