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Title: Flames threaten $200,000 ranch
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Dean, Gordon
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: 1958
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 caption dated July 11, 1958 reads, "Towering flames shoot up behind movie set buildings on Hertz ranch in Topanga Canyon as brush fire sweeps through Santa Monica Mountains in Woodland Hills. Ranch foreman Herb Bennett said blaze started in pump house on ranch. Firemen saved $200,000 ranch and expensive homes nearby. Shifting winds hampered firefighting efforts."; See images #00123859 through #00123861 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00123859
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d027_f31_i23
CARL0005416865
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/55696
Subject: Hertz Ranch (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires--California--Woodland Hills (Los Angeles)
Motion picture locations--California--Woodland Hills (Los Angeles)
Ranches--California--Woodland Hills (Los Angeles)
Buildings--California--Woodland Hills (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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