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Title
Miniature model oil derrick, view 3
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Members of the L.A. Police Dept. and the L.A. Fire Dept. with a miniature model oil derrick, planning the prevention of oil field fires. In the 1920's L.A. was pumping one-fifth of all the oil being pumped in the world, and oil fires were frequent. View 3: two men study the design of a model of an oil derrick.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00037819
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-Fires.; N-005-179.3 4x5
CARL0000040806
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97793
Subject
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Architectural models

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