Burning Oil
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Burning Oil
December 7, 1941
Gelatin silver print
19.5 x 24.1 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0348
Inscriptions recto (black grease pencil): Pearl Harbor
verso (applied typed label): (9) Burning Oil--Streaming from
shattered fuel tanks oil turned parts of Pearl/
Harbor into a sea of flame, following the Japanese attacks. This picture was taken/
from near the Naval Air Station boat landing. Barely visible through the smoke/
are a damaged U.S. battleship and the capsized USS OKLAHOMA./
(blue grease pencil): 14
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
verso (applied typed label): (9) Burning Oil--Streaming from
shattered fuel tanks oil turned parts of Pearl/
Harbor into a sea of flame, following the Japanese attacks. This picture was taken/
from near the Naval Air Station boat landing. Barely visible through the smoke/
are a damaged U.S. battleship and the capsized USS OKLAHOMA./
(blue grease pencil): 14
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
