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Title: Jinx' oil well fire out of control
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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: With hands on their hips, oil field workers stand by helplessly as a fire rages out of control for the second day at a "jinx" oil well at Huntington Beach. Oil derrick (right), has melted and toppled over. Stream of water in foreground was ineffective. Liquid mud failed to halt the flames. Firemen now plan to pump sea water into the nearby well. Photo dated: June 25, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037086
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040090
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12068
Subject: Oil fields--California--Huntington Beach
Fires--California--Huntington Beach
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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