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Title: Oil fields, La Brea, Los Angeles, Cal
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: View of an oil field identified as "La Brea, Los Angeles, Cal." showing numerous oil derricks and a pool of oil.
Title transcribed from note on sleeve in which negative was received. "No. 37"--number written on envelope. Oil drilling was active in the La Brea (mid-city) area beginning in the 1890s.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.1 x 13 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488911
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18782
Subject: Oil fields
Oil well drilling rigs
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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