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Title: Overturned Shell tanker
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Spill made its way into Ballona Creek.
Photograph caption reads: "LA City fire crews spray foam over tanker leaking Shell gasoline tanker sprayed with foam by LA City FD to prevent fire and explosion on Federal, just north of Wilshire, Westwood." Photograph dated: July 2, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082136
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b009_f3_i6
CARL0000081246
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24974
Subject: Oil spills--California--Los Angeles
Tankers--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Ballona Creek (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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