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Title	Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920
Description	Photograph of a Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920. The well was owned by Standard Oil (10-36. 31-23). The blow-out consisted of 20,000 barrels of oil. At least 6 other derricks are visible in the hilly distance behind the oil gushing upward out of the derrick. Pipes lay in a pile at left adjacent to one of the oil rig shacks.
Subject	Standard Oil Company
Subject (adlf)	oil fields
Subject (file heading)	Industry -- Oil -- Kern County
Subject (lcsh)	Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum refineries
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Taft
Geographic subject (county)	Kern
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1920
Photographer	Clendenen, L.M.
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1920
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	2498
Call number	CHS-2498
Microfiche number	1-115-13
Legacy record ID	chs-m12359; USC-1-1-1-12514
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-2498
Full text	"■ •SrA\MbApvD ifr- 3^ 31- ^3
Archival file	chs_Volume78/CHS-2498.tiff

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