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Title: North American Canyon, Midway Oil Fields, near Taft, California, 22109
Contributor: Southern Pacific Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900-1920
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Plates in: Southern Pacific Lines : agricultural & horticultural, pg. [8].
2016-3137.
Discovered in 1894, currently known as Midway-Sunset Oil Fields; located in Midway Valley and Temblor Range, near Taft.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 x 9 in.
Identifier: (C)001572736CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Oil fields--California--Kern County
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Kern County
Kern County (Calif.)--Photographs
Midway Oil Fields (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Aerial views
Place: California
Kern County
Kern County (Calif.)
Midway Oil Fields (Calif.)

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