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 a man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940. What appears to be a small telescope hangs from the thick drill at center while a man leans from the left to look into the eyepiece. The man in stained coveralls and a hard hat balances along the edge of a circular platform which surrounds the hole where the drill penetrates the earth. A short, oil-stained wall inclines to behind the man on the left from the opposite side of the platform on the right. The wooden frame of a room of the refinery stands in the background behind the man and the wall.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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