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Title: Chart of leading California oil fields in production
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1934
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Chart showing relative positions of leading California oil fields in production, 1866-1935. Chart lists the names of seventeen cities, the age of oil fields (in years) for each particular city, and the oil production (by barrels) per city. Example: Inglewood, 11 years, 95 million barrels; Long Beach, 14 years, 525 million barrels; Fullerton, 38 years, 150 million barrels, etc.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066141
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 351 4x5
CARL0000070818
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1974
Subject: Oil industries--California--Charts, diagrams, etc
California--Charts, diagrams, etc
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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