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Category: Oil Industry

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Transformation in the Teens Postview, “In This Lucky Incident There Was a Degree of Poetic Justice”: An Account of the Discovery of Oil at the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, 28 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2023
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Transformation in the Teens Preview: The Walter P. and Laura G. Temple Family’s Extreme Makeover, 1911-1920

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  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 21, 2023
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“The Eyes of America Are Turned Toward the Pacific Coast”: Part 3 of the Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter Number, 3 January 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 3, 2023
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold: A Map of the Ventura Avenue Oil Field, 1927-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 21, 2022December 22, 2022
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part Three

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  • Posted on December 7, 2022December 8, 2022
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 6, 2022
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 5, 2022December 6, 2022
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“We Must Operate on a Most Economical Basis”: Reading Between the Lines in Letters from George H. Woodruff to Walter P. Temple and Thomas W. Temple II, 9 September 1927

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  • Posted on September 9, 2022
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Fossil Fuels: A Press Photo of the La Brea Tar Pits and Oil Field, ca. 1918

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  • Posted on September 6, 2022September 7, 2022
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Refined and Crude From Point A to Point B with the Union Oil Bulletin, September 1928

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  • Posted on September 3, 2022October 21, 2022
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Check out these amazing gouache paintings done by the talented Megan R.! We are always delighted when someone creates art of our site!!!
Transformation in the Teens: The Workman and Temple Families in 1910s Los Angeles
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An ad for a horse race at the Santa Anita Park. Taken from a Mason House program from 1908.
We're always excited when our collection is used in someone's research! Check out this photo from our collection of Los Angeles Mayor Damien Marchessault, which was used by Annick Foucrier, a historian from Paris, in an article on the French in California.

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