Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes points to an apartment where a gas explosion occurred, Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes points to an apartment where a gas explosion occurred, Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 22, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-22
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes points to an apartment where a gas explosion occurred. The apartment was located on 932 S. Mariposa and the explosion occurred when 58-year-old Fred Gastmann lit a match in his gas-filled kitchen. Gastmann suffered first, second, and third-degree burns.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Los Angeles Daily News (firm) employees
Barnes, Brooks - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zv77
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .