Oil wells in the Signal Hill Oil Field, Long Beach, June 1929

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Photograph of oil wells in the Signal Hill Oil Field, Long Beach, June 1929. Eight tall wooden oil derricks can be seen on the top of a hill at center. Some of the derricks have small buildings at their bases, and several oil storage tanks can be seen at center. In the distance at the bottom of the hill, the tops of many buildings in a dense city are visible. Utility poles can be seen at left, running towards the bottom of the hill at right.

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Title Oil wells in the Signal Hill Oil Field, Long Beach, June 1929

Subject oil fields (adlf), Oil well drilling rigs (lcsh), Oil wells (lcsh), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1929-06

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1929-06

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20261

Identifier 36127 (accession number), CHS-36127 (call number), CHS-36127 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21058 (legacy record id), chs-m20261 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21058

Unique identifier UC134201

Legacy Identifier CHS-36127.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
41.7 cm × 33.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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