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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. 88-18F. Luckily there was only one person slightly injured.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6t1nc6z2
cob0168
Subject
Oil fields--California--Coalinga--Photographs
Coalinga (Calif.)--Photographs

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