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Title: Central Oil Co. Whittier
Creator: Fletcher, W. H. (William H.)
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1895]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Description: G58-116
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Fletcher negatives-B40: G58-116
View of thirteen oil wells on rocky hillside and in arroyos; shows steam power station at left, twin cables supported on light standards networking up hill at left, pulley shown at well and tank in right foreground. Whittier; ca. 1895.
No photographer's number.
Title handwritten on front.
Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Gift of Mead B. Kibbey.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 negative : b/w, glass plate ; 5 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001386167CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9444
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Whittier
Oil wells--California--Whittier
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs
Glass negatives
Place: California
Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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