Image / First oil refinery in California, front

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Title: First oil refinery in California, front
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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: View of the Pioneer Oil Refinery, located on the east side of Pine Street in the City of Newhall. Believed to be the world's oldest oil refinery, it operated from mid-1876 to about 1888. View is looking at the front of the refinery.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037725
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 638-B 4x5; Industries-Oil-Refineries.
CARL0000040878
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97844
Subject: Pioneer Oil Refinery
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Santa Clarita
Petroleum refineries--California--Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Newhall (Calif.)

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