Detectives investigate explosion at Japanese Consul Ken Wakasugi’s home, Los Angeles, 1925

Title: Detectives investigate explosion at Japanese Consul Ken Wakasugi’s home, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created: September 14, 1925
Date: 1925-09-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Two detectives stand on the sidewalk outside Consul Wakasugi’s craftsman home.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Explosion at Consul’s Home,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1925: A2.
An explosion shook the home of Japanese Consul Ken Wakasugi when his cook, V. M. Ueyama, was using the incinerator. Ueyama suffered from burn injuries.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Consuls, foreign, L. A. Japan, Explosion X
Handwritten on negative: Home of Jap [sic] Consul

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Consuls--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1704
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dc6wb
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