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Title: Oil field workers, Brea
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Brea Chamber of Commerce
Date Created and/or Issued: 1908
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: Photograph used for an article dated July 28, 1961.
Photograph caption reads, "Oil field workers in the foothills near Brea posed for this picture in 1908, bringing in members of their families for the big occasion. The late Frank J. Schweitzer Sr., member of Brea's first city council and father of the city's present mayor, is seated in the Reo auto (indicated by arrow)."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043641
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5326-A
CARL0000047035
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13782
Subject: Oil fields--California--Brea
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Brea
Brea (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1901-1910

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