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Title: Drums of drinking water stored in downtown
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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 May 16, 1962 reads, "Drums of drinking water are stored in downtown's subway terminal 'shelter.' John Smith and Allan K. Jones check the supply as officials consider the value of the subway as a fallout shelter in case of an attack. Other supplies were also brought in."
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041842
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9201
CARL0000046363
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13491
Subject: Subway Terminal Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fallout shelters--California--Los Angeles
Drinking water--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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