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Title: Oil in Los Angeles and Booming. 1192.
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: G58-124
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Fletcher negatives-B40: G58-124
View of oil wells; shows man at horse-drawn metal oil tank in foreground, steel-banded wood oil storage tank at center, two girls at path at right, many oil derricks beyond; hip roofed houses at left. Los Angeles; ca. 1895.
Photographer's number: 1192.
Title handwritten on front.
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)001386178CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9455
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Carts & wagons--California--Los Angeles
Storage tanks--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Glass negatives
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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