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Category: Oil Industry

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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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Reading Between the Lines in Letters from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 29-30 August 1923

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  • Posted on August 29, 2022
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold: Greater Los Angeles Petroleum Prospecting with State Mining Bureau Maps and in Harper’s Weekly, 26 August 1899

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  • Posted on August 26, 2022August 26, 2022
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“Financial Facts for the Protection of the Investing Public”: The August 1920 issue of American Globe/ The Pacific Trade Review, Los Angeles

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  • Posted on August 11, 2022August 15, 2022
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Read All About It in the Whittier Californian and Deep Sand Bulletin, 1 August 1929

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  • Posted on August 1, 2022August 2, 2022
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La Casa Nueva’s Centennial: La Familia Temple en México, Julio y Agosto 1922

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  • Posted on July 31, 2022
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 13 July 1874

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  • Posted on July 13, 2022
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Read All About It While Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 12 July 1923

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  • Posted on July 12, 2022July 13, 2022
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Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 26 April 1923

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  • Posted on April 27, 2022
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  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Desire Under the Elms,” Wilkes’ Orange Grove Theatre, Los Angeles, 28 March 1926
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A press photograph of Mary E. Foy, 1920. Foy was the first female head librarian of Los Angeles in 1880. Foy was honored by the democratic national committee in her work fighting for suffrage for women in California.
Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m.
Gathering the Sparks of LA's Jewish Past with Edmon J. Rodman
Historic photo of Agnes Temple at the front door of La Casa Nueva ca. 1926 vs today.
A Memorial to the Pioneer Temple Family”: The Early History of Temple City, 1923-1930
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