Shell Oil Company Dixon #1 Well, March 9,1931

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Photograph of Shell Oil Company Dixon #1 Well, March 9,1931. The well is in the center of the image and is composed of a very tall frame with two platforms, one in the middle and one on the top. Its base is surrounded by wooden buildings and there is a man walking underneath it. In the background there are four similar structures visible. In the lower right corner is a free standing building and a two-wheeled trailer.

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Title Shell Oil Company Dixon #1 Well, March 9,1931

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Solano County (Dixon Oil Field) (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh), Shell Oil Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1931-03-09

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1931-03-09

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-m12444

Identifier 10135 (accession number), CHS-10135 (call number), CHS-10135 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11738 (legacy record id), chs-m12444 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12599 (legacy record id), 1-115-26 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11738

Unique identifier UC130569

Legacy Identifier CHS-10135.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.4 in × 19.2 in at 300dpi
39.1 cm × 48.9 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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