Fire fighters walk down a road as fire consumes brush on the hillside behind them in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929

Item Overview

Title

Fire fighters walk down a road as fire consumes brush on the hillside behind them in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1929

Date Created

[December 20, 1929]

Date

1929-12-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Roads passing through Griffith Park are viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. One road enters frame along the right half of the bottom edge and stretches into the near distance where it intersects another road at the base of a hillside. The other road enters frame from the lower right and slopes downward to the left. In the near distance and at the intersection, several fire fighters walk towards the camera. A truck is parked behind them, left-of-center. A hillside stretches across the background and along the far edge of the horizontally-oriented road. Halfway up the hill, flames rise and a burn line is visible. Dark smoke billows upward from the flames, obscuring the rest of the hill.
A photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "GRIFFITH PARK FIRE HAVOC CHECKED IN HARD BATTLE: One Killed and Many Hurt Before Weary Army Subdues Blaze; Loss Total Runs High," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1929: A1

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, FIRE, 1929 [handwritten on attached note:] 1 discolored (try to scan)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles