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Title
A view looking south through an oil derrick, Signal Hill, December 28, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1932-12-28
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 view looking south through an oil derrick, Signal Hill, December 28, 1932. Foreground features a close-up view of an oil derrick from a position inside the derrick. A wheel type apparatus can also be seen, in the immediate foreground, as part of the structure of the derrick. Many more oil derricks can be seen in the middle and background of the photograph, and utility lines can be seen stretched across the sky.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30412 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35771
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30412
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35771.jpg
Subject
Oil well drilling rigs
Oil fields
Signal Hill (Calif.)
Time Period
1932-12-28
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
USA
Source
357771 [Accession number]
CHS-35771 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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