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Title: Oil tank explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981
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 caption reads: "Flames shoot from Long Beach oil tank after explosion yesterday morning ..." ; "Twisted metal is all that remains of larger storage tank which exploded on the SC Edison Plant in Long Beach Sunday. One man is dead, cause of explosion is under investigation. Roof of tank is at right and rests on catwalk." Photograph dated: April 6, 1981.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082104
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b007_f2_i56-11
CARL0000081215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25476
Subject: Southern California Edison Company
Explosions--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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