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Tag: Petroleum prospecting greater Los Angeles 1920s

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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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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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Read All About It While Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 12 July 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 12, 2022July 13, 2022
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Refined and Crude: The “Union Oil Bulletin,” January 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 23, 2022January 29, 2022
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Drilling for Black Gold with “California Oil World,” 23 November 1922

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 23, 2021
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“The Great Imponderables That Make Men Worthy Citizens of a Democratic Commonwealth”: A Review of the Angel City in the “Engineering News-Record,” 4 October 1923, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 5, 2021
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Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 24 May 1923

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  • Posted on May 24, 2021
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