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Title: Where 5 met death in oil blast
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated August 29, 1945 reads, "Five men were killed and one was injured today when this oil well at Seal Beach blew in, caught fire and exploded. The dotted line shows where one of the men was blown from the top of the structure to his death. Arrow shows where the bodies of the others were found."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099363
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005109808
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30265
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Seal Beach
Oil well drilling--California--Seal Beach
Explosions--California--Seal Beach
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Seal Beach
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Seal Beach--Employees
Oil wells--California--Seal Beach
Seal Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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