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Title
Men next to two automobiles in front of an oil well, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 men next to two automobiles in front of an oil well, ca.1930. Two automobiles stand on at center with four men crowded around the back of the right automobile's trunk. A small table protrudes from the trunk and presents scientific equipment on its surface. A man in a suit sits on a short stool in front of the table while the other three men lean over it from behind him. A third automobile next to a tall oil derrick in the background on the left while a tall dirt wall stands above the men on the right. Photoprint reads "Doder traveling [...] of the well &B[anvid] Sales Corp".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
14 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12278
USC-1-1-1-12431 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41023
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12278
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41023.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41023 [Accession number]
84-1-1353 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41023 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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