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  • Oil Industry

Drilling for Black Gold: A Press Photo from the Christening of the Oil Tanker “Larry Doheny,” 12 August 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 12, 2020December 30, 2020
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Drilling for Black Gold with “The Oil Industry” Magazine, 15 April 1909

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  • Posted on April 15, 2020December 29, 2020
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Drilling for Black Gold: Promotional Materials for the Snowolene Oil Company, Los Angeles, 1923

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  • Posted on March 21, 2020September 28, 2023
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Drilling for Black Gold: A Letter from West Whittier Oil Company to Walter P. Temple, 5 January 1921

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 5, 2020December 28, 2020
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All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold: A Map of the Huntingon Beach Oil Field, 26 November 1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 27, 2019September 28, 2023
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Wo/men at Work: Oil Industry Office Workers in Los Angeles, 1924 and 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 1, 2019December 30, 2020
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Drilling for Black Gold: The Strange Saga of C.C. Julian, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 20, 2019December 30, 2020
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  • Disasters

Drilling for Black Gold: Oil Well Fires at Santa Fe Springs, November 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2017December 21, 2020
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  • From Point A to Point B With a Letter from Western Auto Supply Company, Los Angeles, 23 July 1927, Part One
  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928

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