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| Description: | View of burning oil wells in the desert during the Persian Gulf War. |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered a safe distance from a burning oil tank. |
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| Description: | An oil tank burns in an oil field, probably in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first oil well was constructed in 1859. In total, 35,000 barrels burned... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
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