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Title
Oil well fire
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of a man walking away from a plume of smoke from an oil well fire in an oil field, with an automobile and oil tanks in the distance presumably in Southern California.
Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the style of automobile in the image.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.7 x 13.8 cm (postcard format)
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19096
Subject
Oil fields
Oil well drilling rigs
Fires
Photographs. (aat)
Place
California, Southern
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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