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Title: This was once a two-story house
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated December 5, 1947 reads, "Splinters and rubble are all that's left of two-story home at 2002 Virginia road today after fumes of deadly cyanide gas being used to fumigate building exploded. Three workers were injured, one of them blown through wall of home into house next door."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099369
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005109814
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30272
Subject: Buildings--Fumigation--California--Los Angeles
Fumigants
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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