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Title: Pico Canyon oil field
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: At the head of Pico Canyon, in the old Newhall oil field, stands this diminutive derrick known as the California Star Oil Works Company No. 4 well. It has faithfully produced for 54 years (as of this March 11, 1931, photo) and is the oldest active well in California.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00042883
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998.
CARL0000046690
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13618
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Santa Clarita
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Santa Clarita
Oil fields--California--Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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