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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928
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The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928
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Description
Photograph of the deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928. What appears to be a two-story cottage-style residential home stands behind a palm tree to the right of a tall oil siphon tower at center. The tower marked an oil well that was 7,409 feet deep and was operated by the Richfield Oil Company. A water tower can be seen behind the house to the right, as well as a second siphon in the distance to the left. A tall, conical shrub droops in from the left foreground.
Asset Metadata
Title
The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928
Subject
Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles Basin
(file heading),
oil fields
(adlf),
Petroleum industry and trade
(lcsh),
Petroleum refineries
(lcsh),
Ricfield Oil Company
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Long Beach
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Signal Hill
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1928-05-01
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
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
1928-05-01
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-m12390
Identifier
6958 (
accession number
), CHS-6958 (
call number
), CHS-6958 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11915 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12390 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12545 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-18 (
microfiche number
), 1-32-61 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 41127 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11915
Unique identifier
UC131827
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6958.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
6.1 in × 7.8 in at 300dpi
15.6 cm × 19.9 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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