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Title
A few buildings in front of an oil field
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 few buildings in front of an oil field, [s.d.]. There are a handful of scattered buildings in the foreground as well as a few small palm trees. At right, two cylindrical structures are visible in a clearing. Several oil wells occupy the middle, and form the edge of an extensive oil field that continues into the background.
There are signs of damage on the left edge of the negative.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30340 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37141
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30340
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37141.jpg
Subject
Petroleum industry and trade
Oil well drilling rigs
Buildings
Oil fields
Place
California
USA
Source
37141 [Accession number]
CHS-37141 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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