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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, ca.1920
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Oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, ca.1920
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Description
Photograph of an oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, ca.1920. The fire blazes forty feet into the air. Dark clouds of smoke billow from the flames. About a dozen men stand near the fire. A building stands at left.
Asset Metadata
Title
Oil well fire at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field 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 : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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
1920
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-m12357
Identifier
6219 (
accession number
), CHS-6219 (
call number
), CHS-6219 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11898 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12357 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12512 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-17 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11898
Unique identifier
UC131170
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6219.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
14.2 in × 18.1 in at 300dpi
36.3 cm × 45.9 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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