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View of various pipes and other equipment at an oil field. Museum records indicate this was called a "trap farm".

Image showing a bird's eye view of a steep hillside, with an oil derrick on top of the hill in the distance. Two tractors are on the hillside. Library records indicate: "Slide of Ventura Field Hartman Lease Slide Area, 1940s-1950s."

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

Writing below image includes witnesses to the creation of the invention and notary public signature dated…

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

Caption below image reads: "Evidence that the one and only inventor of this drilling bit is William Bruce…

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

Caption below image reads: Evidence that there is in existence this 18th day of June, 1931, a complete a…

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

One of six mounted photographs in a folder of a multiple point antifriction bearing rotary drilling bit, invented by William Bruce Flynn.

Ensign Chris Cervantes, Vehicle Launching System on USS Norton Sound at Port Hueneme. Taken 9/5/84; published Star-Free Press 9/11/84.

Man with machine.

Harvesting and agricultural equipment

Panoramic view of an oil field. Many oil derricks are seen interspersed between winding roads and trees. Various buildings and large holding tanks are also visible.