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Title
Oil wells in Signal Hill, at Long Beach, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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 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
Identifier
chs-m12391
USC-1-1-1-12546 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41131
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12391
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41131.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles County--Long Beach
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Oil fields
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Los Angeles
Signal Hill
Long Beach
USA
Source
41131 [Accession number]
84-1-1748 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41131 [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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