Oil Smoke Forms the Backdrop -- While a photographer looks at the wreckage, smoke rises in the background from burning oil storage tanks at Valdez. City was hard hit by the earthquake which demolished some of Alaska's most picturesque and largest cities.

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Title:
Oil Smoke Forms the Backdrop -- While a photographer looks at the wreckage, smoke rises in the background from burning oil storage tanks at Valdez. City was hard hit by the earthquake which demolished some of Alaska's most picturesque and largest cities.
Description:
[Information from item housing] Earthquake Alaska 1964
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. March 1964]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Earthquakes
Alaska Earthquake, Alaska, 1964
Places:
Alaska
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 207 x 256 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bn99dj24s
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001165_0070
Barcode:
39999088103708