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Title: Atomic blast seen in valley
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Steele, Bob
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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.
Photograph caption dated March 7, 1955 reads, "Atomic fire lights pre-dawn valley skies. -- Blazing light from biggest atomic blast in current Yucca Flats, Nev., tests illuminates Valley skies -- 275 air miles away -- at 5:20 a.m. today, 20 minutes after explosion. Photo was taken from Mulholland Drive. Cluster of lights at left is Lockheed Air Terminal. At right is Burbank residential and business district."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083719
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d002_f29_i6
CARL0002885558
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42806
Subject: Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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