Image / Signal Hill oil field, facing north and east. December 27, 1922

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Title: Signal Hill oil field, facing north and east. December 27, 1922
Creator: Aerograph Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributor: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922-12-27
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A slightly elevated panoramic view of the oil field of Signal Hill, facing north and east. There are hundreds of oil rigs, or derricks, across the landscape. Among the oil rigs there are streets of houses, as well as numerous vacant lots. There are railroad tracks on the far left side of the image. Small clouds of smoke or steam are coming out of the ground near one of the oil rigs in the foreground. Writing in white in the bottom left corner reads "No. 226 ; C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico Blvd."
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Extent: 26 x 83 cm (10 x 33 in)
Identifier: 167757
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/4429
Subject: Signal Hill (Calif.)
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Houses--California--Signal Hill. (lctgm)
Panoramas--California--Signal Hill--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Place: Signal Hill (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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