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Title: Richfield oil fire Signal Hill 6-2-33
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: PHOTO: PETROLEUM: LOS ANGELES COUNTY: SIGNAL HILL
2009-2705.
View of scene in Signal Hill on June 2, 1933 during an oil fire due to an explosion. A large cloud of smoke is seen near oil wells, storage tanks, and a residential home. A tanker truck is seen in foreground along with a crowd. Men are seen on the left building a dike to contain the spilled oil.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001394884CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Accidents--California--Signal Hill
Explosions--California--Signal Hill
Fires--California--Signal Hill
Houses--California--Signal Hill
Oil spills--California--Signal Hill
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill
Smoke--California--Signal Hill
Storage tanks--California--Signal Hill
Signal Hill (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Signal Hill
Signal Hill (Calif.)

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