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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Rural town road with an oil well at distant right, ca.1930
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Rural town road with an oil well at distant right, ca.1930
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Description
Photograph of a rural town road with an oil well at distant right, ca.1930. A paved road can be seen running from center foreground towards the background. One-story homes with sloped roofs are visible lining both sides of the road, while utility poles can be seen on the left side of the road. Dilapidated wooden fences, trees, and shrubs are visible amongst the homes. What appears to be a water tower can be seen at right, while an oil well is visible towards the right background. Shrub-filled hills can be seen in the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Rural town road with an oil well at distant right, ca.1930
Subject
Industry -- Oil -- General
(file heading),
Petroleum industry and trade
(lcsh),
Petroleum refineries
(lcsh),
roadways
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1930
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 12 x 17 cm.
(aacr2),
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12447
Identifier
41108 (
accession number
), CHS-41108 (
call number
), CHS-41108 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11950 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12447 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12602 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11950
Unique identifier
UC131034
Legacy Identifier
CHS-41108.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 34.7 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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