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 an "electric bleeder", used to reheat the water in sixty oil wells belonging to C. C. M. Oil Company in Fellows, California, May 28, 1932. There is a large cylindrical structure with metal scaffolding around it. There are two ladders, a long one going up the back side and a shorter one that ends about half way up the left side. There is a door under the second ladder that is open to reveal a large valve. There is another smaller cylinder on the left that has a pipe leading out to the ground. There is a long pipeline leading from the large tank to the right edge of the image and being held up by thin metal poles.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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