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Full portrait of Captain Howard E. Marsh, California Highway Patrol, Ventura. He stands beside a motorcycle with a stretch of road and a hill or mountain in the background. He wears his uniform and smiles at the viewer.

Mural at Ted M. Mayr funeral home, chapel pews in foreground, mural in center. Chandeliers/light fixtures at top of image.

Aerial photograph of the Oxnard sugar beet factory and the grounds surrounding it.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Closeup view of tank cars being loaded with oil.

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

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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."

Image of oil equipment. The rectangular steel boxes in the foreground are called mud pits and act as reservoirs for the intake of the mud pumps, which will be used during drilling operations.

The hat shaped object in the left hand corner is a mud…

Men working--rigging up preparatory to commencing drilling operations. This means installing all the necessary equipment, such as drawworks, crown block, rotary table, mud pumps, engine, etc.

Drilling equipment--this view is taken on the toolhouse rack and shows several pieces of equipment that are used during drilling operations. To the extreme left is a goose neck swivel from which the drill pipe hangs when it is being rotated. In the…

A view of drilling tools stored on the toolhouse rack. The objects in the immediate center foreground are called "subs" and are used to join together joints of pipe which have different type threads.

The objects in the center with curved bails are…

A closeup view of rock drill bits taken at a well location. Description from back of photo: "These its are screwed on to the end of the drill pipe and perform actual cutting operations on the bottom of the hole. When a bit becomes drill and a…