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"Salt Dome Blast, 1964." Tatum Salt Dome, Lamar County (Miss.), nuclear test, October 22, 1964. As pictured and identified in a Hattiesburg American newspaper article October 23, 1964, Horace Burge home "ramsacked [sic] by blast" approx. 2 miles from ground zero. Burge surveys damage.

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  • Creator(s): Moncrief, Winfred
  • Date: 1964-10
  • Item: 257
  • Corresponding Print Number(s): 258
  • Description: "Salt Dome Blast, 1964." Tatum Salt Dome, Lamar County (Miss.), nuclear test, October 22, 1964. As pictured and identified in a Hattiesburg American newspaper article October 23, 1964, Horace Burge home "ramsacked [sic] by blast" approx. 2 miles from ground zero. Burge surveys damage.
  • City/State: near Baxterville, Mississippi
  • County: Lamar County
  • Call Number: PI/1994.0005
  • Filename: 71408-0257-photo.tif

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