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Title: Bomb placed outside L.A. County Department of Public Social Services
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Steiner, Bob
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.
Deputy Sheriff Jerry Despues inspects a bomb (arrow) set in the doorway of L.A. County Department of Public Social Services, located at 3900 E. Triggs Street in East Los Angeles. The bomb contained 4 sticks of dynamite, 4 blasting caps, and a double fuse (which was lit but went out). The office was scheduled to open at 8:00 a.m. Photograph dated January 21, 1971.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095540
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005107088
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30609
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Social Service
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Department--Employees
Bomb threats--California--East Los Angeles
Explosives--California--East Los Angeles
Bombs--California--East Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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