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Title
Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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 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
Identifier
chs-m12388
USC-1-1-1-12543 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7298
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12388
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7298.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles Basin
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Union Oil Company of California
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
7298 [Accession number]
CHS-7298 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-115-21 [Identifying number]

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