Fire trucks parked outside Dura Steel Products Co., Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Fire trucks parked outside Dura Steel Products Co., 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
- Fire trucks parked outside the fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co. An electrical short circuit ignited 20 barrels of highly flammable paint thinner. The fire destroyed the plant and left approximately 100 employees without a job.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fire - LA - 8th and Santa Fe., LA Dura Steel Products Co.; 2-22-40.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 8th and Santa Fe fire.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Dura Steel Products Co.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Disaster
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zvsh
- Manifest url
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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 .