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Title: "Spudding in" ceremony
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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: Crowds of people attend a "spudding in" ceremony of an oil well on the Ramsey and Bemus property in Compton. Photo dated: September 21, 1926.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037768
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Oil-Derricks.; N-000-491 5x7
CARL0000040834
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97812
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles

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