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
Photographic portrait of people seated on the base of an oil well in Los Angeles, 1930-1940. Eleven people, including two women, are lined up across the image at center. Several of the men are dressed in grubby oil worker clothes, while the women and one of the men are dressed nicely. An array of metal pipes extends upward around the people, and a large flywheel can be seen at left. The base of the oil well is made from thick wooden boards.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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