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Flames from the explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo well, December 1937

Description:: Explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo oil well. The gas release came without warning and initially caused rock and mud to shoot 200 feet into the air. The friction from this then ignited flames which roared out of the ground for nearly three days before dying out. The explosion caused a volcano-like crater 75 feet across and approximately $100,000 in damage.
Date:: between December 21 and December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Flames from the explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo well, December 1937

Debris shoots into the air during an explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo well, December 1937

Description:: Explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo oil well. The gas release came without warning and initially caused rock and mud to shoot 200 feet into the air. The friction from this then ignited flames which roared out of the ground for nearly three days before dying out. The explosion caused a volcano-like crater 75 feet across and approximately $100,000 in damage.
Date:: between December 21 and December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Debris shoots into the air during an explosion at Richfield Oil Company's El Segundo well, December 1937

Map of the city of El Segundo : compiled from the records of Los Angeles County, California

Description:: Includes inset location map.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Henry J. Bruman Map Collection

Map of the city of El Segundo : compiled from the records of Los Angeles County, California

#25 Rancho Sausal Redondo. Rancho San Pedro.

Description:: Cadastral map showing landowners.; Blue line print.; Some sheets are plastic treated cloth.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Henry J. Bruman Map Collection

#25 Rancho Sausal Redondo. Rancho San Pedro.

William R. Hoover, president of Computer Sciences Corp. standing amongst rows of computer data banks, Calif., 1977

Date:: March 27, 1977
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Whitney, Fitzgerald, b. 1928
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William R. Hoover, president of Computer Sciences Corp. standing amongst rows of computer data banks, Calif., 1977

Lt. General Kenneth W. Schultz with airspace model in anechoic chamber at Air Force Systems Command in El Segundo, Calif., 1973

Date:: July 8, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lt. General Kenneth W. Schultz with airspace model in anechoic chamber at Air Force Systems Command in El Segundo, Calif., 1973

Louise Peterson points to a collection of autographs of military leaders who were prominent during World War I, El Segundo, 1935

Description:: Some of the autographs include: General Peyton C. March, Lieutenant Hunter Liggett, Major General George Cameron, Lieutenant General R.L. Bullard, Major General H.E. Ely, Major General William S. Graves, Major General Omar Bundy
Date:: [circa November 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Louise Peterson points to a collection of autographs of military leaders who were prominent during World War I, El Segundo, 1935

Automobile traffic at intersection in El Segundo, 1965

Date:: May 9, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Automobile traffic at intersection in El Segundo, 1965

Space physicist Virginia Carter in her lab at Aerospace Corp. in Calif., 1972

Date:: March 27, 1972
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gunderson, Judd
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Space physicist Virginia Carter in her lab at Aerospace Corp. in Calif., 1972

Anti-nuclear protesters marching against Atlantic Alliance (NATO) plans to deploy missiles in Europe, El Segundo, Calif., 1983

Date:: October 22, 1983
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Yaro, Boris
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Anti-nuclear protesters marching against Atlantic Alliance (NATO) plans to deploy missiles in Europe, El Segundo, Calif., 1983