Workers fighting a fire in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Workers fighting a fire in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1933
- Date Created
- October 1933
- Date
- 1933-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
Workers in a line holding a very long hose in a canyon in Griffith Park. Smoke is visible towards the end of the line in the distance. - Caption
- Text from newspaper caption: Los Angeles Parks, Griffith Park, Fire, 1933.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6119
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cw8mg
- 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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .