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Title: Roaring blaze sweeps through sections of oil refinery
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: A roaring blaze swept through other sections of this oil refinery. At the height of the fire, eight gasoline tanks were turned into gigantic torches in one flashing second. Damage caused by the fire was set at $500,000. Photo dated: May 19, 1954.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037093
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040107
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12075
Subject: Oil fields--California
Fires--California
Oil well drilling rigs--California
Petroleum refineries
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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