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Title: $10,000 damage in Signal Hill oil well fire
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: Fire destroyed a wooden rig, pumping house and three adjacent tanks of the Exeter Oil Co.'s hilltop Exchange well at Signal Hill. Photo shows a mass of fire ruins. Damage was estimated at more than $10,000. Photo dated: November 19, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037048
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040055
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12030
Subject: Exeter Oil Co. (Signal Hill, Calif.)
Oil fields--California--Signal Hill
Fires--California--Signal Hill
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill
Signal Hill (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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