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Description on back of photograph: "The drilling crew on this location have completed the well and are taking out the rotary table. The control gate has been removed and is lying on the dolly walk at the bottom of the picture. After a well is…

Description on back of photograph: "These five boilers are being used to generate steam for a drilling well which may be up to 2000 feet away from the boiler setting. The steam is piped to the location through a 6 inch pipe line which can be see on…

Description from back of photograph: "Here we meet Mr. Orville W. Cliver, seasoned veteran who has 35 years of experience in oilfield work. While drilling operations are in progress the driller, or one of his crewmen, must constantly watch the wight…

Image of a drill being lowered. Description on back of photograph refers to photo 14145 OS, and reads: "Here see an overall view of the same well with Mr. Cliver lowering his bit deeper in the hole. The pipe shown hanging in the center of the derrick…

Description from back of photograph: "These little white tags are attached to the end of core trays and each core is an interval of formation cored, or cut out of the sand, or the rock, the bit is going through at that particular depth. By studying…

Description from back of photograph: "This curious looking thing is a rotary tong. In operation it latches around the drill pipe and is used as a large wrench to screw or unscrew the drill pipe. These tongs are so heavy they must be suspended from…

Description on the back of photograph reads: "Unitized drill pipe slips. The handles on the right and left are so placed that two rotary helpers may easily place these slips around the drill pipe so that the weight of the pipe will hang from the…

Description from back of photo: "The average Christmas tree of today has only one leg as show in this picture. The fittings on this Christmas tree do not have to stand the pressures shown in the older style tree and are more economical to install.…

A view of the Lufkin pumping unit at the Ventura Oil Fields. Description from back of photo: "This is a pumping unit which is powered by a multiple cylinder engine using natural gas for fuel. The three heavy beams shown are the strong members…

Description from back of photo: "An air balancing jack, all of which means it is simply another type and make of pumping unit. Instead of the heavy cast iron counter balance weights shown on image 14151 OS, this type unit uses a pneumatic right hand…

View of "Hartman No. 5" a hydraulic pumping unit. Museum records indicate that this is at Ventura Oil Field, Getty Oil Company.

Description from back of photo: "Hydraulic lift pumping units are designed for pumping wells from 8,000 feet to 12,000…

Description on back of photo reads: "Commonly referred to as a trap farm is this installation of gas traps, manifolding and flow tanks. A trap farm is a central collecting point for oil and gas production as it comes directly from the wells. The…

Truck used for hauling equipment to oil drilling site. Truck has tubing on the back and is loading small drilling or cleanout rig. Two men in hard hats in image.

Description from back of photo reads: "Here is a portable well pulling unit and telescoping mast which is used when producing wells are in need of repair. The stands of the pipe in the foreground are called tubing and it is through this tubing that…

An older man stands on an older style wooden drilling platform that is abandoned. The well is just to the right of the "Old-Timer". The large cable reel is in the rear and there are several pieces of equipment left on the platform deck.

A man in a hard hat stands next to oil drilling equipment in the outdoors.

Bird's eye view of old abandoned drilling site, with dilapidated buildings in view. "Presently this type of operation would be cleaned up and wells 'capped' for future use or discard."

Steam generating plant showing six boilers to the right of image. "Old type steam generating plant. 6 boilers."

Image showing men working to load drilling casing onto a flatbed truck with a crane. "Flat bed truck and crane used for hauling drilling casing to drill site."

A man in a hat stands in front of "Equipment needed to process crude oil into its components. Re: Gas, kerosene, oil, etc."

Composite photograph of four aerial images of an oil spill off of Santa Barbara in January of 1969. Images are numbered 1-4.

Composite photograph of four images of workers cleaning an oil spill off of Santa Barbara in January of 1969. Images are numbered 5-8.

Exterior view of "Mill Dist. School Ventura Co.", a single story building with a driveway to a parking lot at the building's right and a flagpole in font. Photo corner has the number "-851-".

Mounted sepia print of several oval portraits of bee keepers, mainly men but there are some women. There are 120 bee keepers with their names printed at the bottom of their photo. Among them is Robert Wilkin, a bee keeper from Sespe, in the middle of…

Cousins Richard (Dick) and Dorothy play in the sand as children on a beach in Ventura. Dick lays on the ground next to a rope, and Dorothy stands. Both look at the viewer. The shipwrecked Coos Bay is behind them as well as the Ventura Wharf.