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Title: Standard Oil Refinery, El Segundo, looking southwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1967
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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.
Aerial view of El Segundo oil fire at the Standard Oil Refinery, located at 324 N. El Segundo Blvd. in El Segundo; view is looking southwest. A pre-dawn fire in a cracking unit lit the skies for an hour and a half, though the 25-foot tall tower blaze was not as extensive as it was spectacular. The Pacific Ocean is visible in the background. Photograph dated December 22, 1967.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00104311
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 621-4
CARL0005186238
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5841
Subject: Standard Oil Company of California
Industrial facilities--California--El Segundo
Petroleum industry and trade--California--El Segundo
Petroleum refineries--California--El Segundo
Fires--California--El Segundo
Industries--California--El Segundo
Dwellings--California--El Segundo
Streets--California--El Segundo
El Segundo (Calif.)--Aerial views
El Segundo (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Aerial photographs

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