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Description
1999-0112 PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: LOS ANGELES: BUILDINGS: STANDARD OIL CO. Four views of Standard Oil Co fire, located between Olympia, Aurora and San Fernando Streets, Dec. 7, 1898. View 1 (1999-0112) overview from east showing people lined along street, railroad tracks, and on viaduct watching the fire; horse-drawn carts and wagons, railroad tracks, statue in street (left); C.F.X. Ice House building (center left), Los Angeles River, viaduct and bridge (in distance upper right) -- View 2 (1999-0113) close-up of fire, shows railroad tracks in foreground, crowds beyond, workers' houses to right of fire. View 3 (1999-0114) C.F.X. Ice House building and railroad tracks in foreground, Standard Oil tank and burning building behind it -- View 4 (1999-0115) looking west, shows close-up of burning tanks and destroyed brick building (center), B.F. Brooks Packer and Shipper / California Fruits and Produce building (right), rubble of burned railroad cars on tracks at right.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 photographic prints mounted on 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. boards : col. ; 5 x 7 3/4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001378402CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-1642
Subject
Standard Oil Company of California--Photographs Fires--California--Los Angeles Railroad tracks--California--Los Angeles Buildings--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Carts & wagons--California--Los Angeles Bridges--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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