General Petroleum Company oil gusher spraying into the sky, Santa Fe Springs, ca. February 11, 1923

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Photograph of a General Petroleum Company oil gusher spraying into the sky, Santa Fe Springs, ca. February 11, 1923. Several early automobiles stand parked in the foreground in front of a picket fence, behind which a black jet of oil bursts into the sky. The towers of oil siphons fill the field behind it. A tree cuts into the frame from the left.

Asset Metadata

Title General Petroleum Company oil gusher spraying into the sky, Santa Fe Springs, ca. February 11, 1923

Subject General Petroleum Company (subject), oil fields (adlf), Oil wells (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Fe Springs (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1922-02-11/1924-02-11

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1922-02-11/1924-02-11

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-m17954

Identifier 7297 (accession number), CHS-7297 (call number), CHS-7297 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17923 (legacy record id), chs-m17954 (legacy record id), 1-115-20 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17923

Unique identifier UC113600

Legacy Identifier CHS-7297.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.6 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.7 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

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