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Title
Los Angeles oil field near 1st Street and Glendale Boulevard, August 20, 1901
Date Created and/or Issued
1901-08-20
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a Los Angeles oil field near 1st Street and Glendale Boulevard, August 20, 1901. About 30 oil wells are visible, along with several large wooden storage tanks.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm., 4 x 5 cm.
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7957
USC-1-1-1-8086 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-852
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7957
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-852.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles Basin
Oil wells
Oil fields
Time Period
1901-08-20
Place
1st Street & Glendale Boulevard
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-115-5 [Microfiche number]
852 [Accession number]
CHS-852 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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