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Category: Oil Industry

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Making a Statement With a Temple Estate Company Year-End Financial Statement, December 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 29, 2024
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“The Man Who Turned the Very Earth to Gold”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Los Angeles Realtor Joe Toplitzky, 8 November 1919, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 9, 2024
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Drilling for Black Gold with “Los Angeles as an Oil Center” in The Land of Sunshine Magazine, October 1894

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 27, 2024
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Yet Another Bird’s-Eye View Photograph of Downtown Los Angeles, 10 October 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 10, 2024
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Read All About It While Drilling for Black Gold in California Oil World, 4 October 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 4, 2024
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 13 August 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 14, 2024August 15, 2024
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“One of the Strangest of our Experiences”: Read All About It with a Visit to Chinatown, Los Angeles Herald, 6 August 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 7, 2024August 8, 2024
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Drilling for Black Gold with California Oil World, 30 July 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 30, 2024August 10, 2024
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The Rise and Fall of Adobe Abodes in Greater Los Angeles, 1851-1876, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 29, 2024June 29, 2024
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Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: William Benjamin Scott, 1868-1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 15, 2024June 17, 2024
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