Oil seep in a "blowout", Mexico(?), ca.1930

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Photograph of oil seep in a "blowout", Mexico(?), ca.1930. The oil is shooting straight up into the air and the wind carries it to the left. The oil derrick is about 75 feet high. A ladder proceeds up the side of it to the top which is completely obscured by the oil. A few trees and the roof of a building are visible at the bottom of the image.

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Title Oil seep in a "blowout", Mexico(?), ca.1930

Subject Industry -- Oil -- General (file heading), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh), wells (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Mexico (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 13 cm., 21 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1930

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-m12296

Identifier 670 (accession number), CHS-670 (call number), CHS-670 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11865 (legacy record id), chs-m12296 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12450 (legacy record id), 1-115-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11865

Unique identifier UC131807

Legacy Identifier CHS-670.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
33.4 cm × 43.9 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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