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Title: Natural gas explosion at Sylmar
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Steiner, Bob
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
At least 20 workers were trapped in an aqueduct tunnel near Sylmar, Calif., after a natural gas explosion. The workers were constructing part of a five-mile tunnel for the Department of Water and Power.
Photograph caption reads: "Load of 4 1/2 bodies as it exits from tunnel". Photograph dated: June 26,1971.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00079292
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b007_f2_i43
CARL0000080056
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24785
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Construction workers--California--Los Angeles--Death
Construction industry--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Natural gas--California--Los Angeles
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.).Department of Water and Power

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