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Title: Towers in the tide, Long Beach area stricken
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: Photograph caption reads, "The towering oil wells of Long Beach Harbor region are reflected in high tide waters pushing over a nine-block area today. Among the 12 families that were evacuated from the stricken neighborhood were two expectant mothers. Lifeguards turned them over to the Red Cross for care. Another 30 families floated their belongings out of inundated section." Photograph dated July 19, 1951.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078647
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 193
CARL0000079786
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24676
Subject: Floods--California--Long Beach
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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