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Title: Hot mud, oil and flames shoot 300 feet into sky
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
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: A geyser of hot mud, oil and flame shoots 300 feet into the sky as one of two blown-out oil wells on the Inglewood Country Club continued to erupt uncontrolled. First blasts rocked the area, and wells have been roaring since. Heat was so intense that one well tower melted and collapsed (arrow). Photo dated: December 31, 1952.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037094
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040110
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12077
Subject: Inglewood Country Club (Inglewood, Calif.)
Oil fields--California--Inglewood
Fires--California--Inglewood
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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