File:LongBeach-oilfield-1920.jpg

Summary
Oil field, Long Beach, California, 1920.

Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library's Photo Collection.

LA Public Library date unknown Los Angeles Public Library Photographic Collection.

Image 	 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics45/00042263.jpg Title 	 Long Beach oil field Date 	 ca. 1920s; 1930s. Physical Details 	 1 photograph : b&w Collection 	 SPNB [SPNB (Originally Hollywood Citizen-News)] Aerograph Co Description 	 Oil well gushing in Union Oil Company's Long Beach oil field in Signal Hill, as people watch. Houses are scattered about the area. Subject Headings 	 Union Oil Company of California.

On the photograph: Photo No. 27?, The Aerograph Co. 5880 ???????, LA, Cal. Union Oil Co's L.B.C. ????, Signal Hill

According to Davis, Ken, the Signal Hill Historical Society (2006). Signal Hill: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-3073-5, the photo is of Union Oil Community Company's Well No. 11 in the Cresent Heights neighborhood of Signal Hill. [near the corner of Cherry and Burnett.] BlankVerse 10:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)