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Title: Burbank house a 'total loss' in gas explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated June 21, 1951 reads, "This house at 1333 North Sparks street, Burbank, was a "total loss" today after a gas explosion ripped it apart last night. Joe Alcorer, 29, and wife had just bought it and planned to move in. Title had gone through escrow."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099394
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112154
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30369
Subject: Debris--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Explosions--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Dwellings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Lost architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs

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