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Title: Cause of school explosion hunted
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph caption dated December 23, 1952 reads, "Water Heater Blast Shatters School Windows - Officer Leo T. Edwards examines damage in first grade classroom at Richardson D. White Eelementary [sic] School at 744 East Doran, Glendale, after an explosion in a water heater wrecked the structure. Almost every window in school was shattered by the blast which rocked the area for miles around."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093230
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005009160
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28642
Subject: Richardson D. White Elementary (Glendale, Calif.)
Elementary schools--California--Glendale
Water heaters--California--Glendale
Classrooms--California--Glendale
Explosions--California--Glendale
Windows--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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