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Category: Oil Industry

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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 28 July 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 30, 2023July 31, 2023
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Sharing the History of Shelley M. Stoody with the Chino Hills Historical Society

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 13, 2023June 13, 2023
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Twists and Turns in the Twenties Preview with a Photo of the Montebello Oil Field, April 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 14, 2023
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Drilling for Black Gold: A Blow-Out Gasser with Union Oil Company’s Bell Number 18 Well, Santa Fe Springs, 2 April 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 2, 2023
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  • Oil Industry

Making a Statement: A “Report of Receipts and Expenditures” for Walter P. Temple, 18 February to 17 March 1921

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
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Games People Play: A Press Photo of An Auto Race at the Culver City Speedway, March 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023
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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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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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  • Oil Industry

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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