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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Workers standing near the Shell Oil Company Williams #1 Well, at the time the deepest in the world, March 6, 1931
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Workers standing near the Shell Oil Company Williams #1 Well, at the time the deepest in the world, March 6, 1931
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Description
Photograph of workers standing near the Shell Oil Company Williams #1 Well, at the time the deepest in the world, March 6, 1931. There are four men posed in the foreground, looking at the camera. All are wearing long pants and boots, and all but the man on the left are wearing hats. The pump's machinery is behind them, composed of a complex array of valves, pipes and bolts. It is housed in a large metal room with corrugated metal walls.
Asset Metadata
Title
Workers standing near the Shell Oil Company Williams #1 Well, at the time the deepest in the world, March 6, 1931
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),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1931-03-06
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1931-03-06
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12281
Identifier
10140 (
accession number
), CHS-10140 (
call number
), CHS-10140 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11856 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12281 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12434 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-32 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
), 33319 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11856
Unique identifier
UC130560
Legacy Identifier
CHS-10140.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.4 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
49.4 cm × 39.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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