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Title: Oil field blast rocks Inglewood
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated April 22, 1949 reads, "Auto was almost cut in half when the blast-catapulted boiler landed on it and then continued tumbling through the air before it struck telephone pole. Entire community was in darkness for more than four hours."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 24 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099378
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112118
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30357
Subject: Debris--California--Inglewood
Automobiles--California--Inglewood
Steam-boilers--California--Inglewood
Explosions--California--Inglewood
Dwellings--California--Inglewood
Steam-boiler explosions
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs

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