Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes pointing at oven in an apartment where a gas explosion occurred, Los Angeles, 1940

Title: Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes pointing at oven in an apartment where a gas explosion occurred, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created: February 22, 1940
Date: 1940-02-22
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Daily News reporter Brooks Barnes points to an oven located in an apartment where a gas explosion occurred. The apartment was located on 932 S. Mariposa and the explosion occurred when 58-year-old Fred Gastmann lit a match in his gas-filled kitchen. Gastmann suffered first, second, and third-degree burns.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Explosion - wrecked apartment building at 932 S. Mariposa St., LA (Brooks Barnes pointing).
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Explosion 932 S. Mariposa.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Los Angeles Daily News (firm) employees
Barnes, Brooks
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Media

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027zv98
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