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Title: Oil Field in Los Angeles, N.E. from First Street.
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: G58-126
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Fletcher negatives-B40: G58-126
Oil field in Los Angeles northeast from First Street; shows horse grazing in foreground, multi-gable rooftops of houses at left interspersed with oil well drilling rigs, light utility pole standard in distance, right of center. Los Angeles; ca. 1895.
No photographer's number.
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)001386179CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9456
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Utility poles--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Glass negatives
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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