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Firemen and workmen combat oil well fire in oil field, Santa Fe Springs, 1935

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Title: Firemen and workmen combat oil well fire in oil field, Santa Fe Springs, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A fire engulfs one of many oil wells in an oil field in what is most likely Santa Fe Springs. Several dozen wells dot the landscape, as well as machinery, smoke stacks, pipes, and countless telephone wires and their towers. Also included in this image are pedestrians: firemen and workmen trying to attack the blaze. Several automobiles are parked near the fire. Puddles of water are located around the fire, which suggests the firemen and workers attempted to put out the fire with hoses.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Santa Fe Oil Wells, 2602, [stamped: OCT 24 1935]
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9101
ark:/21198/zz002dh3pk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fires--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fire fighting--California--Santa Fe Springs
Oil wells--California--Santa Fe Springs
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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