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Title: Garment Capitol Building blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: This photo shows Samuel Maiman, who was arrested on three counts covering "malicious" burning of property, according to the district attorney's office. Maiman was named in a complaint, charging him with having caused the explosion in the 12-story Garment Capitol building which injured 35 persons and caused $750,000 damage. Maiman was foreman of a garment company in the building. Photo dated: July 27, 1931.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074582
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3395.
CARL0000077533
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27821
Subject: Maiman, Samuel
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Clothing trade--California--Los Angeles
Clothing factories--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Garment Capitol Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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