Image / Looking out thru an old oil well, Figueroa Street

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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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