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Title
Signal Hill oil gusher, in Long Beach, ca.1923
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1923
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a Signal Hill oil gusher, in Long Beach, ca.1923. A derrick erupts with oil and smoke at center, and an arrow edited onto the photo leads to some text which reads "Union Oil co's L.B.C. 11 Signal Hill". In front of the gusher stands another tall wooden derrick, built into several house-like structures and a tank at its base. In the background, the silhouettes of several other derricks can be made out through the smoke, and a tangle of utility pole lining streams overhead. In the foreground sits a pool of water dug into the ground, in which one can see the reflection of the scene.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12389
USC-1-1-1-12544 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41130
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12389
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41130.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles County--Long Beach
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Union Oil Company of California
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1923
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
1-115-64 [Microfiche number]
41130 [Accession number]
CHS-41130 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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