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Two men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field
Photograph of 2 men standing near a wooden shed in the midst of dozens of oil derricks in a Los Angeles oil field, Court Street and Toluca Street, 1904. A large wooden vat is at left. These wells have been producing for over 40 years when this image was taken (1904).
Call number: CHS-1276
Filename: CHS-1276
Coverage date: 1904
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1276
Microfiche number: 1-115-7
Archival file: chs_Volume90/CHS-1276.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, b&w ; 4 x 5 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): industrial sites
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1904
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m14974
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Court Street & Toluca Street
Subject (lcsh): Petroleum industry and trade; Oil fields
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15608
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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