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 Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill in Long Beach, ca.1925. The gusher stands at center, spraying oil into the sky, just behind a small ranch-style house. Other oil siphons fill the field around it, along with a few short palm trees. The caption below the image reads "Liquid Gold on Signal Hill! Photo about 1925.".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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