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Title: Crews rush work on a steel derrick
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Oil operators are going in, wells are going down, derricks are going up and houses are being moved out at Inglewood, for the oil rush is on. The Blinn-Harlan and Getty No. 1 wells have struck oil. Associated Oil Co. crews rush work on a steel derrick and installing boilers for a well to offset the Blinn-Harlan discovery hole. Photo shows five men working aloft in the skeleton of a derrick (background). Dated September 24, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037064
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040074
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12051
Subject: Associated Oil Company
Oil fields--California--Inglewood
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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