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Title: Edward Doheny at oil site
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank 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: Edward L. Doheny appears in a straw hat and dark suit in 1929 at the site, near 1st Street and Glendale Boulevard, where he struck oil in 1892, as an anniversary celebration of that event. View 1: Doheny stands on oil site, pointing. View 2: Spectators watch as Edward Doheny walks by an old oil well. View 3: Doheny stands on an oil platform with three other men. He points to the machinery in front of them. View 4: Edward Doheny and unidentified man, stand on the platform of an oil well.
Type: image
Format: 4 photographic prints:b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037762
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-L.A. Area; N-004-060.1 4x5; N-004-060.2 4x5; N-004-060.3 4x5; N-004-060.4 4x5
CARL0000040828
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97810
Subject: Doheny, Edward L.--(Edward Laurence),--1856-1935
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles

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