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Title: [View of timber oil derrick]
Contributor: Cromwell, Westervelt & Hammerton
Date Created and/or Issued: [1888]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0101
PHOTO: PETROLEUM: LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Shows wood buildings to left, leading up to and attached to timber derrick. Cables run either side of derrick from bottom to top. Seven men posed at bottom of tower amoung lumber, wooden wheel and various supplies. "Westervelt & Hammerton" printed on back.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard ; 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001387965CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1269
Subject: Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles County
Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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