Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Title: Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938
Date Created: between 1925 and January 14, 1938
Date: 1925/1938-01-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fire at Goodwill Industries in Baker Block
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Goodwill Industries fire Baker Block

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Goodwill Industries of America
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lifestyle
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025grb7
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