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Title
Kettleman Hills oil field, the Los Nietos Gas Plant, in the oil woods of Bakersfield, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 Kettleman Hills oil field, the Los Nietos Gas Plant, in the oil woods of Bakersfield, ca.1930. A darkly-colored derrick stands on the right with electrical poles standing across the desert-like terrain behind it. Several small, wooden structures spot the field of dust at center while derricks crowd the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
9 x 14 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12331
USC-2-1-1-12485 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41021
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12331
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41021.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Fresno/Kings County (Kettleman Oil Fields)
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
Bakersfield
California
Kern
USA
Source
41021 [Accession number]
84-1-1766 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41021 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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