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Category: Oil Industry

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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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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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  • Oil Industry

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 6, 2022September 7, 2022
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  • Oil Industry

Refined and Crude From Point A to Point B with the Union Oil Bulletin, September 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 29, 2022
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  • Oil Industry

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 11, 2022August 15, 2022
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