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
Photograph of a derrick at the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca.1930. An oil derrick stands tall at center, with a few house-like structures around its base. One of these acts as a shelter for an automobile covered with a sheet in the leftmost corner. In the center of these structures, a small stair leads up to a wooden platform where a man stands in shadow, poised to climb the derrick. In the left background stands another derrick with more construction materials at its base. In the background run a line of utility poles. Photoprint reads: "Ketterman Hills oil wells, Standard Oil Co., ca. 1931. S.O. Co. No. 21-33 Z. Standard Oil Co. U.S. L. 21 Sec 33 T205 R17E".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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