Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A ladder from a fire engine reaches to a second story window. People and officers are seen standing before the building.
Date:: November 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: [December 20, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of smoke rising from the fires from just beyond the mountains that are covered in trees.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A crowd watches smoke billowing from what used to be the auto show exhibition tents. To the left a sign reads "Autoshow." Individuals cross the street to join the crowd. A long hose lies on the street. Reported in "Fire Sweeps Auto Show; Loss Totals $1,250,000: Spectators Escape Without Panic; Spark Makes Fiery Furnace of Cars Housed in Four Tents," Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1929: 1.
Date:: March 5, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: California Hall was on UCLA's "Vermont" campus located at 855 N. Vermont Avenue. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1929. California Hall housed chemistry classes.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: California Hall was on UCLA's "Vermont" campus located at 855 N. Vermont Avenue. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1929. California Hall housed chemistry classes.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Similar photograph appears in the article, "Church Destroyed in $100,000 Hollywood Fire - Spring Festivals Begin." Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1935: 16.
Date:: May 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Interior view of fire damage of California Hall. Some parts of the wooden foundation left from the fire are standing. California Hall was on UCLA's "Vermont" campus located at 855 N. Vermont Avenue. It was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1929. California Hall housed chemistry classes.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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