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1957 Press Photo Cranes set steel pipes for a new oil rig over Industrial Canal

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Cranes set steel pipes for a new oil rig over Industrial Canal. Towering 60-ton gantry cranes look like a young giant's toy erector set as they move massive steel pipes. This is the beginning of construction of a huge offshore oil rig. Day and night the gantrys swing their heavy cables alongside the canal's water. They are a part of the sprawling Higgins, Inc., plant on Chief Menteur highway. Industrial Canal.

Photo is dated 1957.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.
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