Oil well drilling rigs along Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, 1929

Description

View along Pacific Coast Highway, with about 40 oil well drilling rigs visible on both sides of highway, with automobiles, palm trees, kiosk, and lampposts, with railroad tracks and ocean at right; sign on 1 rig in foreground reads (reversed): Pacific Coa[st] Oil Co., Image is reversed, Handwritten at edge of negative: 1905 LB 36 HUNTINGTON BEACH, Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1904 - 1905 Huntington Beach oil derricks 1929, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.