Boiler explosion aftermath

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Title

Boiler explosion aftermath

Subject

Coalinga (Calif.) -- Photographs.; Oil fields -- California -- Coalinga -- Photographs.

Description

On June 19, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five tone fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in the Coalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-18F. Luckily there was only one person slightly injured.

Source

1 photograph : b&w ; 3 x 4.5 in.

Publisher

San Joaquin Valley Library System

Date

1940

Contributor

Coalinga-Huron District Library

Rights

For more information about acquiring copies of these images (in photographic and/or digital form), please contact the R. C. Baker Memorial Museum, Inc., Helen Cowan, Curator, 297 West Elm, Coalinga, CA 93210; (559) 935-1914

Relation

R. C. Baker Memorial Museum, Inc.

Format

image/jpeg

Language

en

Type

Image

Identifier

cob0167

Coverage

1940

Files

cob0167a.jpg

Citation

“Boiler explosion aftermath,” San Joaquin Valley Library System Digital Collections, accessed October 30, 2024, http://digital.sjvls.org/document/397.

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