Man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940

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Photograph of a man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940. What appears to be a small telescope hangs from the thick drill at center while a man leans from the left to look into the eyepiece. The man in stained coveralls and a hard hat balances along the edge of a circular platform which surrounds the hole where the drill penetrates the earth. A short, oil-stained wall inclines to behind the man on the left from the opposite side of the platform on the right. The wooden frame of a room of the refinery stands in the background behind the man and the wall.

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Title Man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940

Subject industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Oil -- General (file heading), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh), Shell Oil Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

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

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1940

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12243

Identifier 41081 (accession number), CHS-41081 (call number), CHS-41081 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11834 (legacy record id), chs-m12243 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-12396 (legacy record id), 84-1-1836 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11834

Unique identifier UC130853

Legacy Identifier CHS-41081.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 20.9 in at 300dpi
42.1 cm × 53.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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