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English: Photograph of the first oil district in Los Angeles, Toluca Street, ca.1895-1901. The oil field is closely packed with about 20 derricks which reflect in the standing water or oil on the ground in the foreground. Each derrick has a small building at its base. Oil pipes traverse the general area.
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The Los Angeles City field is one of many in the Los Angeles Basin. To the west are the still-productive Salt Lake and Beverly Hills fields; to the south is the Los Angeles Downtown Oil Field. Ten miles east-southeast is the Brea-Olinda field, the first to be worked in the region.
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George Washington Bacon (1830–1922) [1] was an American mapmaker and publisher who developed a successful business producing maps of London. In 1861, Bacon founded a series of businesses. He became bankrupt in 1867, after failing to keep on top of managing these businesses.
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In the 1890s and 1900s The Summerland Oil Field sprouted hundreds of oil derricks on the beach and along piers into the surf, just five miles (8.0 km) east of the Santa Barbara city boundary; its westward expansion occasioned a midnight raid by a party of vigilantes, led by Reginald Fernald, son of newspaper publisher Charles Fernald, who tore ...
This second edition had about 800 fewer illustrations than the first edition, although other visual features, such as tables and fold-out maps increased. [18] Further new editions followed in the 1890s, 1901, 1908, the 1920s and 1935. This last edition was also issued as a special British Universities Encyclopedia. Each of these kept the 10 ...