NEGATIVE STRIP OF MONTEBELLO OIL FIELD LOS ANGELES IMAGES
Entry/Object ID
2001.178.3.3
Description
NEGATIVE STRIP OF MONTEBELLO OIL FIELD LOS ANGELES IMAGES
Color: Black; White
A negative strip with six images of Montebello oil field views from 1917 and a shot of downtown Los Angeles from 1923. The four exposures of the oil field show a Standard Oil Company truck parked near the Baldwin Well 1 and a gas trap used at the fields. The other images are of a busy intersection in downtown Los Angeles. None of these images was printed. As a newly-produced artifact, the contact sheet is in mint condition.
Number-Units: 1
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Two-dimensional, Negatives, Oil wells--Montebello (Calif.), Oil fields--Montebello (Calif.), Petroleum mining--Montebello (Calif.), Petroleum prospecting--Montebello (Calif.), Central business districts--Los Angeles (Calif.)