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Rancho Sespe exhibit at the 1924 Ventura County Fair of what appear to be lemons or some other citrus fruit. Crates in the display read "gold stripe", "white stripe", "red stripe", and some have a circular label that reads "Sunkist".

Stereopticon print of a group of men and women on a road next to a Camino Real bell and an open car. Library records: "Group photo, Summit Casitas Pass Rd. Trip to Sta. Barbara. 3 auto loads. 21 May 1912. M/M Pelegrini; M/M Austin Pelegrini; M/M S.…

A man leans over a section of rocky hillside and checks for oil using an instrument.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

A truck is parked next to an oil well blow-out. Mountains in the background.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

A view of an oil derrick from afar, cars parked all around it.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Bird's eye view of an oil derrick that appears to be under construction. Construction equipment and scaffolding around the derrick is visible.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite…

A man in a hard hat leans down on the ground holding an oil drill bit into the ground.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Four men work with an oil drill.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

View of oil derricks and drilling equipment on oil fields.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Closeup view of an oil field pump. Oil derrick in background.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Bird's eye view of an oil field, with mountains and agricultural fields in the background.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Several men work to lay an oil pipeline around a bend. There is a construction vehicle securing some of the pipe as it gets placed.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown…

Bird's eye view of several crude oil storage tanks.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Bird's eye view of ships loading oil in a harbor. Ships, buildings, and oil storage tanks visible, as well as water surrounding harbor and tracks running through the harbor.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry -…

Closeup view of a ship loading oil. A Union 76 storage tank is in left foreground of the image.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Bird's eye view of oil tanker in the ocean.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Closeup view of tank cars being loaded with oil.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Closeup view of Union Oil tank truck. A man stands on top of it, filling it with a hose.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

View of a gas station with three cars parked at the pumps. One man fills his car with gas. Buildings in the background.

Library records indicate this is part of "The Petroleum Industry - transportation & refining. Marguerite Brown Study Prints."

Map of water plan for Tract number 1548-3. Shows land parcels on Walter Avenue, Walter Circle, Kimber Drive, and Reino Road numbered 308 through 335.

Santa Paula, Ku Klux Klan initiation on hills behind town, 10 June 1924. Numerous figures dressed in hooded Ku Klux Klan robes stand or kneel in a circle. A large cross and a US flag are in the middle.

James Crothers looks at the camera from inside his horse drawn buggy in front of Seaside Oil Company gas station at the corner of California and Santa Clara Streets in Ventura. White Garage is behind him on the right.

Pioneers of 1873 annual meeting in Foster Park, Ventura. Men and women are seated on or standing around picnic benches. Cars are in the background.

Herman Keene, district trapper with dead mountain lion caught in Santa Paula. Keene carries mountain lion shot with arrows on his back. Keene has a bow in one hand.

[Identified with (Ojai #73-62.5)]

Group portrait of Santa Paula residents who have lived there for 50 years or more. Taken on the occasion of 63rd Anniversary of Santa Paula. Men and women are seated in rows on what appears to be risers. There are in a building that looks like it…