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Title
View of Signal Hill oil fields, 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 view of Signal Hill oil fields, ca.1930. Hundreds of tall wooden oil derricks are visible on an oil field that stretches from the foreground into the distance. The derricks are tapered airy structures with a platform halfway up and another platform at the top. A crude wooden building can be seen at the base of a derrick at center, while a long wooden building can be seen at the bottom of a small hill at right. Steam is spewing from a structure at right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12285
USC-2-1-1-12439 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33188
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12285
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33188.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
USA
Source
33188 [Identifying number]
84-1-1352 [Microfiche number]
CHS-33188 [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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