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Title: Oil well drilling rigs along Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, 1929
Contributor: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: View along Pacific Coast Highway, with about 40 oil well drilling rigs visible on both sides of highway, with automobiles, palm trees, kiosk, and lampposts, with railroad tracks and ocean at right; sign on 1 rig in foreground reads (reversed): Pacific Coa[st] Oil Co.
Image is reversed
Handwritten at edge of negative: 1905 LB 36 HUNTINGTON BEACH
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1904 - 1905 Huntington Beach oil derricks 1929
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type: image
Format: 4 x 5 inches
Identifier: edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:1427
1445
uclamss_1300_1445
ark:/21198/zz002bx8jg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: California Highway 1 (Calif.)
Oil well drilling rigs -- California -- Huntington Beach
Place: California
Huntington Beach
Relation: ark:/21198/zz002bx8mh (document)
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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