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Title: Plumes of smoke rising amid oil towers, Santa Fe Springs, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: June 10, 1929
1929-06-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: Near-identical photo appears with article "Roaring Flames Turn Black Gold To Smoke: SEVEN DERRICKS GO DOWN IN SANTA FE OIL FIRE Hundreds Fight Spreading Blaze That Brings Destruction to Two Heavy Producers," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jun. 1929: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Fire Menace Rages at Santa Fe Springs. Four hundred volunteers join field force in fight on devastating blaze that breaks out as tank collapses.
Text from negative sleeve: Oil Well Fires. Santa Fe Springs.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3719_G3453
ark:/21198/zz0002pk0b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fires--California--Santa Fe Springs
Petroleum industry--California--Santa Fe Springs
Oil wells--California--Santa Fe Springs
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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