File:Oil wells just offshore at Summerland, California, c.1915.jpg
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English: A field of dozens of oil wells just offshore, at Summerland (Santa Barbara County), before 1905. 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." |
| Date | before 1905. The photographer, G.H. Eldridge, died on June 29, 1905 (obituary). Most of these derricks had been removed by then, those that were not destroyed in the winter storms of 1903; the photo dates from some time before that. |
| Source | 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 (1854–1905) |
| Other versions | The same view in 2009 |
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The author died in 1905, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighbouring rights. | |
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| current | 11:48, 14 March 2007 | | 1,512 × 872 (278 KB) | wikimediacommons>Delirium | A field of dozens of oil wells just offshore, at Summerland, California (Santa Barbara County), c. 1915. Original caption reads: "Oil wells and Summerland, Santa Barbara County, California, showing the ocean bluffs in front of Sumerland [sic], the wharve |
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