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 workers standing near the Shell Oil Company Williams #1 Well, at the time the deepest in the world, March 6, 1931. There are four men posed in the foreground, looking at the camera. All are wearing long pants and boots, and all but the man on the left are wearing hats. The pump's machinery is behind them, composed of a complex array of valves, pipes and bolts. It is housed in a large metal room with corrugated metal walls.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. transparencies negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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