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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5974]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A spectacular oil pit blaze threatened the Double Eagle Refining Co., palnt at 1900 NE 1, for more than two hours Wednesday afternoon before being brought under control. Firemen estimated several hundred thousand gallons of waste oil stored in the refining company's pits up in smoke. Flames shot more than 200 feet into the air and darkened the Oklahoma City skyline wirh a black column of smoke 5,000 feet high. Police rus… more
Date: December 7, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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