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Title: Miniature model oil derrick, view 1
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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: Members of the L.A. Police Dept. and the L.A. Fire Dept. with a miniature model oil derrick, planning the prevention of oil field fires. In the 1920's L.A. was pumping one-fifth of all the oil being pumped in the world, and oil fires were frequent. View 1: three men stand on a table to look at a model of an oil derrick.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037817
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-Fires.; N-005-179.1 4x5
CARL0000040804
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97788
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--Models

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