Oil field in Huntington Beach seen through fog, 1935

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Photograph of an oil field in Huntington Beach seen through fog, 1935. A small strip of asphalt is shown in the extreme foreground, behind which a clump of scrub vegetation can be seen. Past this, piles of earth can be seen scattered along the moors. In the far distance along the horizon, the blurred outlines of numerous oil derricks can be seen.

Asset Metadata

Title Oil field in Huntington Beach seen through fog, 1935

Subject oil fields (adlf), Orange County -- Huntington Beach (file heading), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Huntington Beach (city or populated place), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1935-06-08

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 16 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 1935-06-08

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-m7726

Identifier 9097 (accession number), CHS-9097 (call number), CHS-9097 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7961 (legacy record id), chs-m7726 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7856 (legacy record id), 1-52- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7961

Unique identifier UC124479

Legacy Identifier CHS-9097.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.6 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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