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Title: Boiler explosion aftermath
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Publication Information: Coalinga Huron Library District
Contributing Institution: San Joaquin Valley Library System
Collection: Photographs Selected from the Collections of the San Joaquin Valley Library System Member Libraries
Rights Information: For more information about acquiring copies of these images (in photographic and/or digital form), please contact the R. C. Baker Memorial Museum, Inc., Helen Cowan, Curator, 297 West Elm, Coalinga, CA 93210; (559) 935-1914
Description: On June 19, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five ton fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in the Coalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-17F. Luckily there was only one person slightly injured.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3 x 4.5 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt500021s6
cob0166
Subject: Oil fields--California--Coalinga--Photographs
Coalinga (Calif.)--Photographs

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