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Title
California peak oil production chart
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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 the peak production amounts and discovery dates for California oil fields. Each field, 15 in all, is indicated by name on the chart, the year of discovery is indicated on the X axis, and amounts in millions of barrels are measured on the Y axis. The 15 fields have reached a total output of 12 million barrels or more in the their peak year. This record exceeds any other section of the world. Moreover, a number of these fields hold the record for the volume of production from discovery to their peak period, such as Santa Fe Springs, which reached the phenomenal total of nearly 80 million barrels in 1923. Photo sponsored by the Federal Writers' Project. The chart was drawn by D.C. Newmarch, dated October, 1936.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00067755
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 392 4x5; WPA 360 4x5
CARL0000072887
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2569
Subject
Oil industries--California--Charts, diagrams, etc
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
California--Charts, diagrams, etc
Newmarch, D. C

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