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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill, ca.1925
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Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill, ca.1925
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Description
Photograph of a Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill in Long Beach, ca.1925. The gusher stands at center, spraying oil into the sky, just behind a small ranch-style house. Other oil siphons fill the field around it, along with a few short palm trees. The caption below the image reads "Liquid Gold on Signal Hill! Photo about 1925.".
Asset Metadata
Title
Union Oil gusher in Signal Hill, ca.1925
Subject
Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles Basin
(file heading),
oil fields
(adlf),
Petroleum industry and trade
(lcsh),
Petroleum refineries
(lcsh),
Union Oil Company of California
(naf corporate name)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Long Beach
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Signal Hill
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1925
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 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
1925
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-m12388
Identifier
7298 (
accession number
), CHS-7298 (
call number
), CHS-7298 (
filename
), isla id: 1-115-21 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11804 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12388 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12543 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11804
Unique identifier
UC131325
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7298.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.2 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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