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Title: Black smoke billows from burning oil refinery
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
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: View is looking towards the refinery. Flames spout from a tank at the center which is surrounded by billows of blackened smoke from various spots. Fire hoses lie in the street leading up to the fire scene. Photo dated: May 23, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037085
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040089
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12067
Subject: Hancock Oil Company
Oil fields--California
Fires--California
Oil well drilling rigs--California
Petroleum refineries
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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