Spectators watching a fire at an Auto Show, Los Angeles, 1929
Item Overview
- Title
- Spectators watching a fire at an Auto Show, Los Angeles, 1929
- Date Created
- March 5, 1929
- Date
- 1929-03-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- 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.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Auto show fire. 3/??/29
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3691_G222
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002ndms
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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