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Title
Looking out thru an old oil well, Figueroa Street
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
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 is looking through the rigging of an old well and shows the cut on the mountainside and the new north Figueroa Highway. Photo dated: September 3, 1937.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00037075
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040079
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12055
Subject
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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