Item #3366 Map of Long Beach Oil Field, Los Angeles Co., Cal. [caption title]. California, Oil.

Map of Long Beach Oil Field, Los Angeles Co., Cal. [caption title]

San Francisco: California State Mining Bureau, 1922. Blueline map, approximately 29 x 44 inches. Old folds, scattered dust-soiling, minor wear at crossfolds, light wear and occasional short closed tears to edges, subtly reinforced with tape on verso, a handful of small pencil emendations. Very good. Item #3366

An impressive plat map showing land and mineral rights ownership in Long Beach, California in the early 1920s. The owners of the land include notable oil companies such as Standard Oil, Shell, United, Dabney, General Petroleum, Long Beach Petroleum, and others. Several plots of land are noted as owned by "Alfred Barstow, Trustee." Barstow described himself as an accountant in the petroleum industry in the 1940 census. A legend of thirteen symbols keyed to locations on the map designates such features as rigs, tanks, drilling sites, and more. Several handwritten pencil notations and markings add an extra level of interest to the map, with numerous pencil points added (which according to the key indicates additional producing wells), and an empty plot now noted as a "Cemetery." OCLC lists two copies of a 1925 map of this title, and one from 1947, but no copies of this earlier version.

Price: $1,350.00