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Title
View of wooden oil derricks on the Signal Hill Oil Field near Long Beach, 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 a view of wooden oil derricks on the Signal Hill Oil Field near Long Beach, ca.1930. Dozens of tall, tapered wooden derricks are visible. All of the towers have platforms three-quarters of the way up and on the very top. Several large cylindrical storage tanks can be seen on a hillside at left, while many small wooden buildings can be seen in the foreground near the base of the derricks. More tanks are in the foreground at center.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12287
USC-2-1-1-12441 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33302
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12287
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33302.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Wells
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
33302 [Accession number]
84-1-1754 [Microfiche number]
CHS-33302 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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