Steel cap used to cap burning oil well, Santa Fe Springs, 1928

Item Overview

Title: Steel cap used to cap burning oil well, Santa Fe Springs, 1928
Date Created: September 19,1928
Date: 1928-09-19
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes

Description: Photo appears with article: WELL BLAZE EXTINGUISHED: Huge Steel Cap Clapped on Getty Gusher After Two-Month Fight With Flames," Los Angeles Times, 05 Nov. 1928: A1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: When Man Triumphed Over Raging Nature. Top picture shows steel cap and steam crane that moved up on well and dropped cap over blazing mouth
Text from negative sleeve: Oil Well Fires. Santa Fe Springs.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
glass plate negatives
Location: Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Oil industry workers--California--Santa Fe Springs
Disaster
Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention
Petroleum industry and trade--Fires and fire prevention
Caps and closures

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3719_G3459
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002pk2c
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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