Image / Looking east from Alvarado St.

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Title: Looking east from Alvarado St.
Creator: Fletcher, W. H. (William H.)
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1890]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Description: 1989-0504
PHOTO: PETROLEUM: LOS ANGELES CO.
View looking east from Alvarado Street. Shows oil derricks spread over hillsides. Oil pump with wood beam in well at right foreground. Los Angeles; ca. 1890.
From the W.H. Fletcher Collection.
Negative, no. 27,999 (4 x 5 in.)
Glass plate negative, no. G58-125 (5 x 8 in.), Fletcher Glass Plate Negative Collection.
Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Gift of Mead B. Kibbey.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on 6 x 10 in. board ; 4 3/4 x 8 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001380933CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4192
Subject: Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Houses--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Glass negatives
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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