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Title: Signal Hill oil field
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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 of an oil field on Signal Hill, with numerous oil derricks, on June 29, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066260
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 4130 4x5
CARL0000070705
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1922
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Signal Hill
Oil fields--California--Signal Hill
Signal Hill (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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