Close-up of Pacific Western Oil co. boilers at the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca.1931

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Title Close-up of Pacific Western Oil co. boilers at the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca.1931

Description Photograph of a close-up of Pacific Western Oil co. boilers at the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, ca.1931. Seven large boilers sit facing the right, with tall vessels poking out of their metal studded backsides. A series of pipes connects one boiler to the other, and the seven sit on short brick platforms atop the dusty ground. The background is neutral.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1930

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Fresno/Kings County (Kettleman Oil Fields) (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Pacific Western Oil Company (subject), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Kings (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12342

Identifier 41019 (accession number), CHS-41019 (call number), CHS-41019 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11889 (legacy record id), chs-m12342 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12496 (legacy record id), 1-115-72 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11889

Unique identifier UC130202

Legacy Identifier CHS-41019.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.9 cm × 41.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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