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Image: Oil wells just offshore at Summerland, California, c.1915

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Description: A field of dozens of oil wells just offshore, at Summerland (Santa Barbara County), before 1906. Original caption reads: "Oil wells at Summerland, Santa Barbara County, California, showing the ocean bluffs in front of Sumerland [sic], the wharves and derricks over the wells."
Title: Oil wells just offshore at Summerland, California, c.1915
Credit: Published in Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast, Pacific Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1915, p. 86. Scan by the NOAA, digital ID line 2969, in the America's Coastlines Collection.
Author: G.H. Eldridge
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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