Plumes of smoke from fire as seen from an orchard near Union Oil Company, Brea, circa 1926
Item Overview
- Title
- Plumes of smoke from fire as seen from an orchard near Union Oil Company, Brea, circa 1926
- Date Created
- [circa April 8, 1926]
- Date
- 1926-04-08
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
- Program
- OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
- The tall and dark plumes of smoke fill the cloudy sky as several reservoirs containing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were set afire by lightning at the Brea tank farm of the Union Oil Company. The photo was taken from a nearby fruit grove and the soil appears to be flooded by the oil. Reported in "SECOND TANK FARM AFIRE; LOSSES REACH $18,000,000," The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Apr. 1926: 1.
- Caption
-
Handwritten on negative: Union Oil Fire at Brea
Text from negative sleeve: Fires — Union Oil Co. at Brea.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Names
- Union Oil Company of California
- Location
- Brea (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Smoke plumes--California--Brea
Orchards--California--Brea
Oil wells--California--Brea
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3711_G2456
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1np7xdw
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US