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Title: Oil fields of today, 1946
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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 fields of today are not the dirty dusty "hog wallows" that motion pictures depict them to be. Photo shows the heart of the newly discovered Paloma field in California. Here the oil is gathered and separated from the natural gas. It is then stored in tanks. A man operating the valves in this photo can control production in the entire Paloma field which takes in an area of two thousand acres. Dated July 1, 1946.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037057
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040063
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12038
Subject: Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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