Resource Type: still image / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Program: OpenUCLA Collections / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The tall and dark plumes of smoke fill the cloudy sky as several reservoirs containing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were set afire by lightning at the Brea tank farm of the Union Oil Company. The photo was taken from a nearby fruit grove and the soil appears to be flooded by the oil. Reported in "SECOND TANK FARM AFIRE; LOSSES REACH $18,000,000," The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Apr. 1926: 1.
Date:: [circa April 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Close view of firefighters on ladder hauling hose and fighting flames at Newmark Bros. building. Photo appears with the article, "TONS OF COFFEE BURNED: Afternoon Blaze in Newmark Building Destroys Stock and Machinery With Loss of $100,000," Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 1928: A1.
Date:: November 29, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eunice Pringle on the witness stand examining a dress during Alexander Pantages rape trial. A similar photograph appears in "Pantages Accuser Sticks to Story Through Day of Ordeal: YOUNG DANCER AFFIRMS STORY Eunice Pringle Parries All Defense Insinuations Unprintable Charges Hurled at Girl Plaintiff Mixed Audience Fights to Hear Testimony," Los Angeles Times, 06 Nov. 1931: A1.
Date:: November 5, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Count Roman Potocki departs the train station from Los Angeles after visiting Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Pasadena while on a tour through the United States and Canada. Photo appears with the article "Count Potocki, Polish Nobleman, Ends Visit Here," Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1928: A13.
Date:: June 20, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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