Oil well in the San Joaquin Valley, showing automobiles and with low hills visible in the distance, ca.1930

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Photograph of an oil well in the San Joaquin Valley, showing automobiles and with low hills visible in the distance, ca.1930. A tall oil well sits to the left of center, with a platform at its top and middle. A wire runs from its middle platform to the lower left of the image. At the base of the oil well sit several low wooden plank structures, utility poles, and three automobiles. A row of four chimneys or smokestacks and a low, cylindrical storage tank sit to the left of the well's base. A cloud of dust or steam hangs at the lower leftmost edge of the image. The foreground is filled by dirt or sand, while low hills of the same material are visible in the distance.

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Title Oil well in the San Joaquin Valley, showing automobiles and with low hills visible in the distance, ca.1930

Subject Industry -- Oil -- San Joaquin Valley (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1930

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-m12431

Identifier 31001 (accession number), CHS-31001 (call number), CHS-31001 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11729 (legacy record id), chs-m12431 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12586 (legacy record id), 1-115-83 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11729

Unique identifier UC130544

Legacy Identifier CHS-31001.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.6 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
49.7 cm × 40.7 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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