Aerial view of two buildings on fire on Avalon Blvd. between 107th and 108th street during Watts Riots, Los Angeles, 1965

Item Overview

Title
Aerial view of two buildings on fire on Avalon Blvd. between 107th and 108th street during Watts Riots, Los Angeles, 1965
Photographer
Fry, George R.
Date Created
August 15, 1965
1965-08-15
Publisher
Los Angeles Times
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
Caption
AERIAL VIEW-Two buildings on Avalon Blvd., the left one at 107th St. are the right one at 108th St., go up in flames in this picture from a helicopter.

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Dimensions
5 x 5 cm.
Medium
b&w negative

Keywords

Genre
aerial views
Cityscape photographs
news photographs
Subjects
Smoke plumes
Disaster
Fires--California--Los Angeles County
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Fire engines & equipment--California--Los Angeles County--1960-1970
Offenses against property--California--Los Angeles
Crime
War
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
African Americans--Social conditions--California--Los Angeles County
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude
33.9374319840952
Latitude
-118.266867399215
Resource type
still image

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
uclalat_1429_b556_229847
ARK
ark:/21198/zz0002twdp
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

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Rights Holder
The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country
US
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License
Creative Commons License
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