Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920

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Photograph of a Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920. The well was owned by Standard Oil (10-36. 31-23). The blow-out consisted of 20,000 barrels of oil. At least 6 other derricks are visible in the hilly distance behind the oil gushing upward out of the derrick. Pipes lay in a pile at left adjacent to one of the oil rig shacks.

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Title Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Kern County (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Petroleum refineries (lcsh), Standard Oil Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 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 1920

Creator Clendenen, L.M. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12359

Identifier 2498 (accession number), CHS-2498 (call number), CHS-2498 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11805 (legacy record id), chs-m12359 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12514 (legacy record id), 1-115-13 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11805

Unique identifier UC130663

Legacy Identifier CHS-2498.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 17.2 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 43.8 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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