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 oil wells in Signal Hill, at Long Beach, ca.1925. Oil derricks line the land, with a variety of house-like structures, tanks and piping built into their bases. Left of center stand six smoke stacks, behind several tanks. Several house-like units sit at the right of the foreground, across a few large tanks. A wooden house-like structure sits atop an oilrig at left. The background is a forest of derricks and tanks.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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