Rare Books

Taxpayers' Oil and Gas Map Long Beach Harbor Oil Field

Description: "Tax Free City? Taxpayers $ Millions $ of oil and gas now being forever lost to drainage from 500 unused city drill sites strategically situated on 15 miles of filled channels (meandering dark green strips) and other city tide-land trust property, both filled and unfilled. Oil revenues would save 1000 tax dollars daily interest now paid by citizens on huge harbor debt." The green map is a blown up section of a USGS map of 1896. Red overlays shows the land filled sections in question, some now privately held and developed, from Terminal Island to west Long Beach. California statute gives the mineral rights to the City of all tideland and submerged lands. Today's Long Beach and Los Angeles Harbors have been filled well beyond these limits. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [192-?]
Call number: 252237
Dimensions: 23 x 31 cm
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Los Angeles County oil fields

Manuscripts

Consists of 7 maps: Long Beach oil field (removed from Long Beach map folder), Rosecrans, Santa Fe Springs, Huntington Beach, Torrance, and Montebello/Whittier oils fields.

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Administrative Series contains records relating to various facilitative operations within the Alamitos Land Company, including, but not limit to, account books, annual reports, appraisals, articles of incorporation, audits, balance sheets, bylaws, correspondence, financial records, financial statements, inventories, ledgers, legal documents, minutes, stock certificates, and titles (property rights). This series is organized alphabetically. A small number of oversize administrative records are stored under the Oversize Series. Commercial Properties Series include a wide-ranging type of records relating to the company's commercial and industrial portfolio. As per the original order, records are grouped under the headings of their respective commercial properties or projects, which include, but not limit to, Alamitos Beach Townsites, Alamitos Tract, Bixby Center, Bixby Ridge, Brawley Beef Packing Plant, Brawley Steam Wells, Firebaugh, Geothermal, Hathaway Apartments, Hathaway Business Park, The Knolls, Long Beach Tidelands, Luckey Ranch, Palo Verde and Spring Retail, Paramount Business Park, Recreation Park, Reservoir Hill, Rosemead Flair Business Park, Signal Hill East Unit, Tract 10548, U.S. Navy Depot, and the Willows Office Building. All commercial properties and projects were located within the State of California. This series is organized alphabetically.

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"Thums" Island in Long Beach Harbor

Visual Materials

"Thums" Island in Long Beach Harbor - Offshore oil islands (color)

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Long Beach Harbor, So. Cal

Visual Materials

Image of boats in the marina and lumber resting on the dock in Long Beach Harbor, California, with a sign at left that reads "Richfield Oil Corporation."

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