Unidentified oil field positioned along the shore, [s.d.]

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Photograph of an unidentified oil field positioned along the shore, [s.d.]. A vast field of oil wells, storage tanks and refineries is pictured at center, stretching from the left foreground to the right background. Small maintenance shacks are visible arranged along the high-tide mark in the foreground where the waves can be seen lapping gently in.

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Title Unidentified oil field positioned along the shore, [s.d.]

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles Basin (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Oil wells (lcsh), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Type images

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

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-m19927

Identifier 12871 (accession number), CHS-12871 (call number), CHS-12871 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19740 (legacy record id), chs-m19927 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8081 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19740

Unique identifier UC121871

Legacy Identifier CHS-12871.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.1 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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