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Title: [Oil wells and houses from West Lake Park]
Creator: De Haaff, Mauritz
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1908]
Publication Information: Los Angeles, Cal. : M. de Haaff, Photographer, 212 So. Spring St
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2005-0058
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: LOS ANGELES: PARKS: WEST LAKE PARK
View of Los Angeles from across West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park); shows oil well riggings adjacent to multi-story houses, apartments and hotels. Lake in foreground, gazebos at right along distant shoreline. Los Angeles; ca. 1908.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001386280CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9557
Subject: Lakes & ponds--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Houses--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Landscape photographs
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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