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Title: El Segundo refinery fire
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated April 24, 1948 reads, "An this was the foamite-spattered skeleton remaining several hours later. Gaunt oil stacks and heat-contorted piplines [sic] are all that's left of this section of plant razed by six hour fire; white coating is foamite used for extinguishing holocaust."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 50 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114325
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box - Oversize 1
CARL0005416247
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32333
Subject: Fires--California--El Segundo
Petroleum industry and trade--California--El Segundo
Oil storage tanks--California--El Segundo
Lost architecture--California--El Segundo
El Segundo (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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