"Electric bleeder", used to reheat the water in sixty oil wells belonging to C. C. M. Oil Company in Fellows, California,1932

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Photograph of an "electric bleeder", used to reheat the water in sixty oil wells belonging to C. C. M. Oil Company in Fellows, California, May 28, 1932. There is a large cylindrical structure with metal scaffolding around it. There are two ladders, a long one going up the back side and a shorter one that ends about half way up the left side. There is a door under the second ladder that is open to reveal a large valve. There is another smaller cylinder on the left that has a pipe leading out to the ground. There is a long pipeline leading from the large tank to the right edge of the image and being held up by thin metal poles.

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Title "Electric bleeder", used to reheat the water in sixty oil wells belonging to C. C. M. Oil Company in Fellows, California,1932

Subject C.C.M. Oil Company (subject), Industry -- Oil -- Machinery (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Fellows (city or populated place), Kern County (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1932-05-28

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 1932-05-28

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m12321

Identifier 10136 (accession number), CHS-10136 (call number), CHS-10136 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11877 (legacy record id), chs-m12321 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12475 (legacy record id), 1-115-27 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11877

Unique identifier UC130650

Legacy Identifier CHS-10136.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.7 cm × 35.0 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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