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Title: [Oil wagon parked at oil wells]
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: G58-121
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Fletcher negatives-B40: G58-121
View of oil wagon parked on dirt road adjacent to field of oil wells; shows stack at end of tank on wagon, similar stack adjacent to two-story building at right. Kibbey notes, ... most oil storage tanks are steel-banded wood, but wagon has a metal tank of around 500 gallons and is pulled by two horses. Los Angeles; ca. 1895.
No photographer's number.
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)001386176CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9453
Subject: Carts & wagons--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Glass negatives
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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