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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Edward L. Doheny at the site dedication ceremony for his discovery of oil, 1930. Doheny, wearing a straw hat, waving, and standing under a wooden scaffold or derrick, discovered oil in 1892 near Second Street and Glendale Boulevard (south side of Court Street, east of Patton, two and one-half blocks east of Glendale Boulevard). Another man stands at his side. A receiver, or microphone and camera stand on tripods at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 16 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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