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Title: Oil well fire near tunnel
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: Fire in an oil well in an unknown location on September 29, 1928. The nearby tunnel has a heat barricade on top of dirt and iron. It was reported workers who entered were paid $75 per day.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044201
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000047691
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13931
Subject: Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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