The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928

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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.

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Title The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1928-05-01

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)

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

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