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Title: Tanker explosion in San Pedro
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Dubee, Myron
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1976
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Cryptic warning in foreground did not foretell how devastating the blast would be as firemen hos down the still smoldering wreckage of the superstructure that was blown from the tanker when it blew up Friday night." Photograph dated: Dec. 20, 1976.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082132
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b009_f1_i12
CARL0000081242
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24970
Subject: Sansinena (Ship)
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Marine accidents--California--Los Angeles
Harbors--California--Los Angeles
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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