Stone monument erected to mark location of land claim, Santa Clarita vicinity, 1896

Item Overview

Title

Stone monument erected to mark location of land claim, Santa Clarita vicinity, 1896

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

1896

Date

1896

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of a small stack of stones built as a marker for an oil venture land claim in Lang. The cairn stands at center and hills stand in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 632. Lang, Calif. 1896. In the Superintendent's Office S.P.R.R. Arcade depot, Los Angeles, Calif. the clerks undertook to organize an oil company during the oil excitement of the time, and F.H.Gilbert, Chief Clerk of the office became managing head. One Sunday Gilbert and a couple of us took the train to Saugus, Calif. rented a rig at the livery stable and went up toward Lang in a canyon and filed on some land under the name of the Live Oak Oil Co. I think we incorporated, but nothing ever came of the transaction. The Monument we erected to mark our location. Hitching up the rig at Saugus. Gilbert holding the horses. 2 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Clarita

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Cairns--California--Santa Clarita
Boundary markers--California--Santa Clarita