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Title: Boy Scouts at Civil Defense headquarters
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: Boy Scouts at Civil Defense headquarters on Mt. Lee, chart atomic bomb hits on Los Angeles and Long Beach in a simulated enemy attack. Circles are one mile apart. If the attack had been real, here's what would have happened: (A) All buildings gone, 90 per cent of people dead, all others hurt. (B) Fifty per cent dead, 35 per cent injured. (C) Ten per cent dead, 40 per cent injured. (D) Five per cent injured, no deaths. Photo dated: June 1954.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041841
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9201.
CARL0000046129
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13451
Subject: Civil defense--California--Los Angeles
Boy Scouts
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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