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 the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, featuring a prominent derrick, ca.1931. The oilrig stands right of center, with a series of pipes and funnels at its base alongside a tall shiny tank and a series of pumps inside a house-like structure. To its right sits a stack of poles atop the dusty ground. The soil slopes down at left toward an area full of digging equipment, and a plume of smoke sprouts from a pipe in the midst of this. In the leftmost background stand five smoke stacks, while a tank-like structure sits at center. In the distance is a series of dunes. The background is otherwise neutral.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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