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Description
Photograph of a view of Kettleman Hills Oil field, ca.1931. A drilling derrick stands tall over an oil well right of center in the foreground. To its left sits a mound of pipes, while a smoke stack of five sits directly behind it. Four other oilrigs can be seen in the left background behind the first derrick, each with a variety of construction equipment at its base, and two other five-fold stacks can be seen in the distance. The second derrick in the row has what appears to be a small shelter built into its base, beside which lie several house-like structures to the right. In the left foreground, a stair built into a soil mound leads down toward several pump-like structures. The distance is lined with dune-like mounds of land.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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