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Title
View of the Lake View gusher at the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, 1920-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
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 a view of the Lake View gusher at the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, 1920-1930. A tall metal oil derrick is at center and a massive plume of dark oil is spewing from the top, creating a dark cloud. The ground around the derrick is wet with oil. Many more derricks can be seen in the distance. A mountain range runs across the image in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12354
USC-1-1-1-12509 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33160
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12354
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33160.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Kern County
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Sunset Oil Field
Oil fields
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
California
Kern
USA
Source
1-115-61 [Microfiche number]
33160 [Accession number]
CHS-33160 [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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