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Title
Shell Oil Company Dixon #1 Well, March 9,1931
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-03-09
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 Shell Oil Company Dixon #1 Well, March 9,1931. The well is in the center of the image and is composed of a very tall frame with two platforms, one in the middle and one on the top. Its base is surrounded by wooden buildings and there is a man walking underneath it. In the background there are four similar structures visible. In the lower right corner is a free standing building and a two-wheeled trailer.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12444
USC-1-1-1-12599 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10135
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12444
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10135.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Solano County (Dixon Oil Field)
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Shell Oil Company
Oil fields
Time Period
1931-03-09
Place
California
Solano
USA
Source
1-115-26 [Microfiche number]
10135 [Accession number]
CHS-10135 [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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