Oct. 1, 1910: Photo taken by commercial photographer C.C. Pierce after daylight on the morning of the bombing. Embers are still smoking. The blast shattered windows in the adjoining building to the rear. The Times eagle visible on top of the building is now in the Globe Lobby.

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The second home of the Los Angeles Times at 1st and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles prior to the 1910 bombing. The building opened in 1887.

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The staff of the Los Angeles Times in front of the second Times Building at 1st and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles prior to the bombing.

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Oct. 1, 1910: Flames inside the Los Angeles Times building just a few minutes after the dynamite explosion.

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Oct. 1, 1910: Thirty minutes after the explosion, fire consumes The Times Building.

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Oct. 1, 1910: Crowds gather at Broadway and 1st Street after the bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building. The 1 a.m. attack killed 20 employees and and injured about 100.

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October 1910: Police officials tour the ruins of the Los Angeles Times. Intense heat from the explosion and fire has bent the girders of the building.

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Oct. 9, 1910: Laborers sift ashes for remains of victims.

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October 1910: Another view of the burned out offices of the Los Angeles Times after the early morning bombing.

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October 1910: Damage inside the Los Angeles Times Building after bombing.

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Oct. 3, 1910: Photo from Broadway side of The Times Building, showing the damage from the bombing.

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Oct. 2, 1910: The smoking ruins of the Los Angeles Times Building one day after the bombing.

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October 1910: The burned remains of the main business counter, which used wood from dozens of sources, including California missions and a piece of the bed in which Abraham Lincoln died.

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October 1910: The burned-out press room after the bombing. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis liked to give the presses patriotic names like Uncle Sam and the Tri-Color.

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Oct. 3, 1910: Main entrance of the destroyed building at 1st and Broadway.

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October 1910: Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, president and general manger of the Los Angeles Times, inspects the ruins. He was a target of the bombing, but was delayed in returning from a trip and was out of town when the blast occurred. Another bomb left at his home on Wilshire Boulevard exploded while an LAPD officer was trying to disarm it, but no one was injured.

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Oct. 5, 1910: At the funeral of Churchill Harvey-Elder, the casket is taken from the funeral home. Harvey-Elder was one of the few bombing victims not buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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October 1910: Caskets at services for the victims in the bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building. The huge floral display is a reproduction of the Times Building. This image was copied from a print owned by Jack Moore of the county marshal's office.

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Oct. 9, 1910: Burial of bombing victims at what is now Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The monument in the background is to Gen. Harrison Gray Otis' wife, Eliza.

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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies escort the McNamara brothers to court in an undated photo.

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An undated photo of John J. McNamara, left, secretary-treasurer of the International Assn. of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, and his brother James B. McNamara, who placed the bomb that destroyed The Times Building. James pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in the Oct. 1, 1910, bombing of The Times. John pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in the Dec. 25, 1910, bombing of the Llewellyn Iron Works.

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Oct. 9, 1911: Photo from the courtroom during jury selection for the McNamara brothers' trial. The jury pool was reduced from 125 to 40 during the day's proceedings. This image was published in the Oct. 10, 1911, Los Angeles Times. Many of the faces were touched up by a Times artist.

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Dec. 1, 1911: Evidence against the McNamara brothers. This photo was published in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 2, 1911. The bag on the left was identified as belonging to John McNamara. In center is bomb making equipment. On right is pistol used to shoot a watchman. As with many images published in the early 1900s, this print has an unusual shape.

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Dec. 4, 1911: Handwritten confession by James B. McNamara to the bombing of the Los Angeles Times. Print from nitrate negative.

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