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Title: Wreckage of an oil derrick after a storm, Signal Hill, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 14, 1936
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 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.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Gale-Lashed Coast Strewn With Debris - Craft Wrecked by Pounding Seas," Los Angeles Times, 06 Apr 1936: 18.
A lone man is seen moving beams of wood from a haphazard pile of destruction, the steel oil derricks looming n the background.
Text from negative sleeve: 4792 - Oil Wells- Signal Hill Storm Pix 4/5/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936
Text from newspaper caption: OIL WELL WRECKED IN SOUTHLAND STORM 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.
Handwritten on negative: 147 147 Signal Hill - 4/5/36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14043
ark:/21198/zz002j7jsg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Debris--California--Signal Hill
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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