Oil well in "blow out", California, ca.1930

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Harmon Well no. 1. Oil seep in a "blowout". Oil is spurting in a great flow out of a horizontal pipe. Grass is visible in the foreground. Daily capacity 40,000 barrels. This well made a millionaire of a drilling contractor, Mr. George Harmon, besides returning an unusual profit to others connected with him.

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Title Oil well in "blow out", California, ca.1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm., 16 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12297

Identifier 110 (accession number), CHS-110 (call number), CHS-110 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11866 (legacy record id), chs-m12297 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12451 (legacy record id), 1-115-1 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11866

Unique identifier UC130707

Legacy Identifier CHS-110.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 15.1 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 38.4 cm at 300dpi

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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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