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Title: [Oil field, 1912] (2 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0981
PHOTO: PETROLEUM: LOS ANGELES COUNTY: NEWHALL
Shows machinery, men and structures, possibly in oil field or refinery.
View 1 (2008-0981). Newhall Station. Engine connected to conveyor belt sits beside bottom of platform structure. "2 HP Nov 28 12"- found on engine -- view 2 (2008-0982). Men stand atop structure of pipes. "San Fernando Nov - 1912" written on bottom of structure.
Part of set of family photographs taken by Orville T. Blake (1620 40th Ave., Oakland, Calif.). His parents were Reo Blake Goble and Vern Goble, brothers were Marvin and George Blake. Parents and brothers show up in some of the photographs, where the family was vacationing.
Gift Mr. & Mrs. Walter H. Blake, Jr.,
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. and 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001389135CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2447
Subject: Oil wells--California--Newhall
Refineries--California--Newhall
Petroleum works--California--Newhall
Newhall (Santa Clarita, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Newhall
Newhall (Santa Clarita, Calif.)

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