Image / Signal Hill oil field. April 1, 1931

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Title: Signal Hill oil field. April 1, 1931
Creator: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931-04-01
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A slightly elevated panoramic view of the oil field at Signal Hill. There are hundreds of oil rigs, or derricks, most with sheds or circular structures nearby, distributed along dirt roads. There are a few houses scattered among the oil rigs. Steam is rising from some of the rigs in the immediate foreground. There is a note in white just left of center, reading "Photo No. 2. By ; C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico L.A. ; 4-1-1931."
Names attached to this photograph in the finding aid are E.M. Sullivan and Hub Petroleum Corporation.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Extent: 26 x 80 cm (10 x 32 in)
Identifier: 167768
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/4440
Subject: Signal Hill (Calif.)
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Houses--California--Signal Hill. (lctgm)
Panoramas--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Place: Long Beach (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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