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Title
View of oil fields and a dredger at the channel for the Rowing Stadium site for the Olympics, January 23, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1932-01-23
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 view of oil fields and a dredger at the channel for the Rowing Stadium site for the Olympics, January 23, 1932. A field full of oil derricks fills the background, while a boxy water-crane is pictured on the nearby shore. Farther in the foreground, a line of pipe is suspended by wooden blocks over the wide channel that runs through the center of the image.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4528 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36862
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4528
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36862.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General views
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Oil Wells
Oil fields
Time Period
1932-01-23
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
36862 [Accession number]
CHS-36862 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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