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Title
View of the "Grasshopper", an oil derrick
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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
Closeup view of the "grasshopper," or electrically-operated oil field pump. A worker can be seen on a high scaffold in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00037604
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-Oilfields.
CARL0000040668
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100015
Subject
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles

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