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 a Signal Hill oil well view, 1929. A small one story building can be seen in the right foreground. Numerous oil derricks can be seen at center, extending out to the horizon. A road can be seen cutting through the field of oil derricks, beginning in the lower left foreground, extending to the lower right side. Many cylindrical oil storage tanks can also be seen clustered around the derricks in the foreground. Steam can be seen rising from the tops of some of the cylindrical oil storage tanks.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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