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Title: Explosion at oil refinery in El Segundo
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: Photo of gasoline storage cylinders which exploded during a fire at the Standard Oil refinery in El Segundo. A gasoline treating plant was destroyed, which had been burning for 25 minutes before the explosion. The caption reads, "Earth-rocking blast rips El Segundo oil plant...Bulging ball of fire bursts skyward in predawn darkness, lights sky for 10 miles. 13 men suffer injuries after explosion threw oil tank top quarter of mile." Photograph dated: April 24, 1948.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073814
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7499.; HE-002-685 4x5
CARL0000076582
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27721
Subject: Standard Oil Company of California
Petroleum refineries--California--El Segundo
Explosions--California--El Segundo
El Segundo (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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