Rocks at Avila oil shipping port, San Luis Obispo, ca.1905

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Photograph of the rocks at Avila oil shipping port, San Luis Obispo, ca.1905. At left, a large, craggy rock stands just at the edge of shore, extending out to a cluster of much shorter, flatter rocks in the nearby surf. In the background, buildings are indistinctly visible on the shore, just in front of a ridge of hills.; "The government realizes the importance of the shipping industry at San Luis Bay, which is the greatest oil shipping port in the country. Every day there are two or three oil boats loading at Port San Luis; the construction of the public wharf has been completed at Avila; the Californian Petroleum Refineries Limited has completed its wharf and Plant at Oilport and the oil is already being shipped from there." -- unknown author.

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Title Rocks at Avila oil shipping port, San Luis Obispo, ca.1905

Subject Beaches (lcsh), natural rock formations (adlf), San Luis Obispo County -- General -- Ocean views (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Pismo Beach (city or populated place), San Luis Obispo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (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 1905

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13402

Identifier 45375 (accession number), CHS-45375 (call number), CHS-45375 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12902 (legacy record id), chs-m13402 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14316 (legacy record id), USC (project), 7030 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12902

Unique identifier UC135461

Legacy Identifier CHS-45375.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 39.4 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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