US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A pile of destroyed wood with beams sticking at all angles sits by the side of a dirt road. Workers yesterday began to salvage the wreck of this oil derrick which crashed to the ground at the height of the gale which struck Southern California Saturday. The wooden derrick, property of the Edington Oil Company at Signal Hill, narrowly missed toppling over a steel derrick. Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Gale-Lashed Coast Strewn With Debris - Craft Wrecked by Pounding Seas," Los Angeles Times, 06 Apr 1936: 18. Text from negative sleeve: 4792 - Oil Wells- Signal Hill Storm Pix 4/5/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936 Handwritten on negative: 134 134 Oil Wells - Signal Hill 4/5/36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14039 ark:/21198/zz002j7jnd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Debris--California--Signal Hill Oil wells--California--Signal Hill Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill
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