The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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8.00" x 3.50"
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10.00" x 5.50"
Huntington Beach California with Oil Derricks and Pacific Electric Railway 1926 With Text Poster
by Peter Ogden
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Huntington Beach California with Oil Derricks and Pacific Electric Railway 1926 With Text poster by Peter Ogden. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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This is a restored copy of a beach scene with historic antique oil well drilling derricks as seen from the Huntington Beach, California pier with... more
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Artist's Description
This is a restored copy of a beach scene with historic antique oil well drilling derricks as seen from the Huntington Beach, California pier with text description. This amazing photo of the historic southern California early petroleum industry includes, in the right foreground, a California Pacific Electric "Red Car" in front of the old Huntington Inn. This photograph was created in 1926 by a now unknown photographer. [Photo courtesy or Orange County Archives].
The California petroleum and gas industry has been an important industry for more than a century. Oil extraction was a minimal industry during the 19th century, when kerosene replaced whale oil and lubricants becoming indispensable to the industrial age. Petroleum became a significant California business with the 20th century finding of new oil fields in the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley regions when there came a huge increase in consumption of gasoline to power and trucks and cars. California gas and oil production is c...
About Peter Ogden
I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...
$15.56
Rick Hansen
Congratulations on your sale!
Peter Ogden replied:
Thank You Rick--It is an amazing scene!