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Title: Oil well near Venice home
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Oil well belonging to Kasham Oil Co. in Venice, with a beach house next door, on June 2, 1937. There are many oil wells in this section.; Larger version of 00042291.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065964
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 771 4x5
CARL0000071016
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2112
Subject: Kasham Oil Co
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Oil fields--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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