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Title
Oil refinery
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1946
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
An unidentified man, most likely an oil refinery employee based on how he is dressed, stands to the right of a fence prohibiting entrance to trespassers. Several oil wells are seen just beyond the fence.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00115059
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f26_i6
CARL0005307163
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49432
Subject
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Newhall
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Newhall--Employees
Petroleum refineries--California--Newhall
Oil industries--California--Newhall
Oil wells--California--Newhall
Men--California--Newhall
Mountains--California, Southern
Newhall (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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