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Title
Oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
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 an oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, ca.1920. The fire blazes forty feet into the air. Dark clouds of smoke billow from the flames. About a dozen men stand near the fire. A building stands at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12357
USC-1-1-1-12512 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6219
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12357
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6219.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Kern County
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Standard Oil Company
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
Kern
Taft
USA
Source
1-115-17 [Microfiche number]
6219 [Accession number]
CHS-6219 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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