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Title: Raging oil tank fire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Photo shows a raging oil tank fire where 3,642,000 gallons of fuel are ablaze. Other tanks in the foreground (arrow) are still in danger from the belching holocaust, for the blazing tank may burn for 20 hours. Photo dated: August 28, 1953.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037076
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040080
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12056
Subject: Oil fields--California
Fires--California
Oil well drilling rigs--California
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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