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Tag: Drilling for Black Gold

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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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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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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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Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 26 April 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 27, 2022
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Drilling for Black Gold with the Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields, January 1921

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 6, 2022
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Drilling for Black Gold with “California Oil World,” 23 November 1922

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  • Posted on November 23, 2021
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Drilling for Black Gold: A Press Photo of the Signal Hill Oil Field, October 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 8, 2021
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Read All About It While Drilling for Black Gold in the “Santa Fe Springs News,” 6 July 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 6, 2021
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(Left) Historic photo of original Agnes Temple window in La Casa Nueva's Main Hall, ca. 1927
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