People and their vehicles gather on a road near the brush fire site in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929

Item Overview

Title

People and their vehicles gather on a road near the brush fire site in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929

Date Created

[December 20, 1929]

Date

1929-12-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "GRIFFITH PARK FIRE HAVOC CHECKED IN HARD BATTLE: One Killed and Many Hurt Before Weary Army Subdues Blaze; Loss Total Runs High," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1929: A1
A cloud of smoke from a fire in Griffith Park spans the image, thickening at center at right. Foliage along the bottom edge in the foreground slopes down a hillside and meets a road in the distance at center. The road is viewed from above and enters frame from the lower right corner, stretching upwards towards center. At the end of the road, dozens of cars are parked. People stand amongst the vehicles, scattered into small groups. To the left, dozens of people are visible fleeing down a hillside. Behind them, flames rise. Hills surround and rise from the road at the base of the canyon. They are mostly obscured by the cloud of smoke.
This photograph is similar to another one of the 1929 fire in Griffith Park captioned, “Griffith Park Fire Taken at its Height Yesterday from Western Avenue Entrance to Park. (Times photo.),” Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1929: A10

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, FIRE, 1929 [handwritten on attached note:] 1 discolored (try to scan)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles