Portrait of people seated on the base of an oil well in Los Angeles, 1930-1940

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Photographic portrait of people seated on the base of an oil well in Los Angeles, 1930-1940. Eleven people, including two women, are lined up across the image at center. Several of the men are dressed in grubby oil worker clothes, while the women and one of the men are dressed nicely. An array of metal pipes extends upward around the people, and a large flywheel can be seen at left. The base of the oil well is made from thick wooden boards.

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Title Portrait of people seated on the base of an oil well in Los Angeles, 1930-1940

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930/1940

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, 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 1930/1940

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-m12378

Identifier 33306 (accession number), CHS-33306 (call number), CHS-33306 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11774 (legacy record id), chs-m12378 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12533 (legacy record id), 1-115-62 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11774

Unique identifier UC130275

Legacy Identifier CHS-33306.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.9 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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