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Flooded Arkansas River

2008-567
Accession Number
2008-567
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Related Collection
HST Keywords
Arkansas
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Description
View of flooded Arkansas River which washed out 300 feet of bank, undercut the buried "Big Inch" pipeline and caused a break that cost East Coast 7 day stoppage of pumping operations. The stoppage amounted to about one million, four hundred thousand barrels of oil.
Date(s)
ca.
1942