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Title: Automobile in the midst of an oil field
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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: A man stands next to his automobile in the midst of an oil field. During the 1920s the L.A. area was pumping 1/5 of all the oil pumped in the world. L.A. was also the first city in the world to adopt the automobile, with a ratio of one auto for 2.5 residents when eastern cities had only one auto for more than ten. Gasoline during the 1920s sold for about 10 cents per gallon.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037781
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-L.A. Area.; N-004-368 4x5
CARL0000040846
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97822
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Antique and classic cars--California--Los Angeles

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