Signal Hill oil well gusher, at Long Beach, ca.1940

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Photograph of a Signal Hill oil well gusher, at Long Beach, ca.1940. At center, a derrick bursts with oil, sprouting into the sky beside several other oilrigs. Built into its base in the foreground are several house-like structures, tanks and piping. More oilrigs can be seen in the distance, while the lines from utility poles stream through the foreground.

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Title Signal Hill oil well gusher, at Long Beach, ca.1940

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles County -- Long Beach (file heading), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh), wells (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Signal Hill (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 16 x 21 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)

Date Created 1940

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m12385

Identifier 41129 (accession number), CHS-41129 (call number), CHS-41129 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11702 (legacy record id), chs-m12385 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12540 (legacy record id), 1-115-53 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11702

Unique identifier UC130836

Legacy Identifier CHS-41129.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 22.5 in at 300dpi
42.7 cm × 57.2 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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