Four men adjusting a drill inside an oil well, [s.d.]

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Photograph of four men adjusting a drill inside an oil well, [s.d.]. The long metal drill can be seen at center, and one man in a jumpsuit is holding it in place as another adjusts the bit on the end of the long pole. A third man looks on from lef, while another is visible in the shadows at right. The wooden frame of the oil derrick can be seen behind them, along with a column of thick pipes. The frame of another oil well can be seen in the background.

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Title Four men adjusting a drill inside an oil well, [s.d.]

Subject Men (lcsh), oil fields (adlf), Oil well drilling rigs (lcsh), Petroleum engineering (lcsh), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

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-m30131

Identifier 37138 (accession number), CHS-37138 (call number), CHS-37138 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23998 (legacy record id), chs-m30131 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23998

Unique identifier UC131647

Legacy Identifier CHS-37138.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.3 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
33.8 cm × 47.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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