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Title: Melted and collapsed tower of a blown-out well
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: Sprawled like the skeleton of a giant dinosaur, the melted and collapsed tower of a blown-out well in Inglewood Country Club, lies wrecked alongside the erupting well. White-hot flames and a mixture of mud and oil gush skyward while firemen play water on other nearby equipment to prevent the spread of flames. Attempts to cap the well may be made. Photo dated: December 31, 1952.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037081
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998.
CARL0000040085
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12066
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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