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Title: [Oil well platform detail]
Creator: Fletcher, W. H. (William H.)
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1895]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Description: G58-120
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Fletcher negatives-B40: G58-120
Oil well drilling rig platform detail; shows pipes, man's blurred hand on vertical reciprocating rod (like windmill pump) left of center, oil clumps on floor, four men pose at center background, single man poses at left in foreground. Los Angeles; ca. 1895.
No photographer's number:
Restricted: negatives not available for public viewing.
Gift of Mead B. Kibbey.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 negative : b/w, glass plate ; 5 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001386175CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9452
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Glass negatives
Group portraits
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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