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Identifier	MSS187-0314
Title	Great Texas Oil Fire
Description	Postcard shows billowing clouds of black smoke with lower level white smoke, one tall oil derrick on the right, and the bases of two oil derricks are seen through the smoke in the middle of the card. Two men with a shovel are in the lower right portion of the postcard.
Caption	"Great Texas Oil Fire at Humble, near Houston, Texas. Burning 12 tanks, having an area of 4 acres each with capacity of 235,000 barrels each, total area burned 100 acres with about 2,500,000 barrels of oil consumed in fire."
Source	color ; postcards ; 3.5 x 5.5
Type	Image
Language	English
Subject Keywords	Gulf Coast Country
LC Subject Terms	Fires, oil field ; Oil fields ; Petroleum ; Petroleum industry ; Men
Coverage Spatial	Houston (Tex.)
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas
Collection	Houston Metropolitan Research Center Postcard Collection, MSS 0187
HPL Location	Original Postcard can be found at Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Rights	Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Date Digital	2011
Format	jpg
Digitization Specifications	600dpi ; tiff ; Epson flatbed
Filename	index.cpd
Volunteer Contributor	Wendy Wright Bruner

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