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Title
Four men adjusting a drill inside an oil well
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 four men adjusting a drill inside an oil well, [s.d.]. The long metal drill can be seen at center, and one man in a jumpsuit is holding it in place as another adjusts the bit on the end of the long pole. A third man looks on from lef, while another is visible in the shadows at right. The wooden frame of the oil derrick can be seen behind them, along with a column of thick pipes. The frame of another oil well can be seen in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
18 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30131 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37138
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30131
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37138.jpg
Subject
Petroleum industry and trade
Oil well drilling rigs
Petroleum engineering
Men
Oil fields
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
37138 [Accession number]
CHS-37138 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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