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Order Number	00063989
Title	"Air sweep" device
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 1698
Date	1951
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Admiral R. B. Berry, chief of Los Angeles Civil Defense Committee and Phil Ortha examine vacuum "air sweep" device atop City Hall, which will be used for testing whether radioactivity reaches Los Angeles from the impending A-Bomb tests in Nevada. The device draws in possibly contaminated air through a filter trap. Dated October 16, 1951.
Subject	Berry, R. B. Ortha, Phil. Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.). Radioactivity--Measurement. Admirals--United States. Men--California--Los Angeles. Women--California--Los Angeles. City halls--California--Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection