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Title: Compton oil derrick
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 crowd is gathered at an oil derrick in Compton for "spudding in" ceremonies on the Ramsey and Bemus property on September 21, 1926.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00042213
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-Compton; N-002-222 5x7
CARL0000047387
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101206
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Compton
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Compton
Oil fields--California--Compton
Crowds--California--Compton
Dedications--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)

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