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, showing derricks in an oil field, ca.1930. A dull body of water lies in the foreground with fallen sticks and leaves floating through its reflection of the tall derricks which blanket the field on the far bank. Two metal, cylindrical containers stand at the water's edge on the right and appear to secrete smoke from a short pipe at their tops. A row of similar cylinders behind the first pair, closer to the derricks. The far bank appears to be a small mound of discarded earth while tall grass lies in the bank in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 13 x 17 cm. photographic prints photographs
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