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Photo (mounted) of Oil Field in Kern County, Cal.

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Photo (mounted) of Oil Field in Kern County, Cal.
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Has San Joaquin written on shack &"Westside" written on bottom right corner. Except for a couple of mediocre wells on the "westside" of the
San Joaquin Valley, & a few tar mining operations, farming was the mainstay of the valley in the late 1800s. However, the 1899 discovery of "black gold" in a shallow hand-dug oil well on the west bank of the Kern River changed all that. The Kern River discovery started an oil boom, and a forest of wooden derricks sprang up overnight on the flood plain just north of Bakersfield, a sleepy farm town known to most as "Bakers Swamp". Some foxing on this photo, please inspect. 12" x 4.75". From the Salvatore Falcone Collection. State: California City: Date: early 1900's HWAC# 83571