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Title: [Summerland oil wells, Santa Barbara County] (2 views)
Contributor: Title Insurance and Trust Company (1893-1968)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1902
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1. (2013-0594) Horse-drawn carriage with man sitting and one man standing view wharf of oil wells extending out into the ocean from Summerland beach -- View 2 (2013-0595) Several wharves of continuous oil wells extend from Summerland beach.
Text on verso: "Summerland, a former Spiritualist Colony on the Santa Barbara Channel, becomes the world's most famous city of off shore oil wells early in the Twentieth Century."
Dennis Kruska;
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001494698CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Oil wells--California--Summerland
Piers & wharves--California--Summerland
Summerland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Summerland
Summerland (Calif.)

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