Rescue workers carry the covered remains of a victim of the fire at the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, 1924

Title: Rescue workers carry the covered remains of a victim of the fire at the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created: [May 31, 1924]
Date: 1924-05-31
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Rescue workers carry the covered remains of a victim of the fire at the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey as firemen and others look on.
Twenty-three girls died in the fire that started in the old wooden building at 9 pm on May 31 and lasted 2 hours.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hope Development Home Fire

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Mentally disabled children--Health & welfare--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10543
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbj2j
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