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 chief driller K.M. East inspecting a drill bit, ca.1940. East can be seen at center squatting over the drill bits which lie on the wooden floor below. His coveralls are lightly-colored with spots of oil and his large, leather gloves grasp the teeth of a drill bit on the right. The drill bit is darkly-colored with dirt dusting the worn teeth. A small machine sits on the left of East while two other drillers stand near the larger machinery in the background. Photoprint reads "K.M. East, chief driller who has nursed the record-breaking drill through which progress the earth's crust is shown here examing the teeth of the bit just withdrawn".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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