Shell Oil Nasa Well No. 11 in Long Beach, ca.1930

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Photograph of Shell Oil Nasa Well No. 11 in Long Beach, ca.1930. At center, several derricks stand tall, while a series of wooden structures is built into the base of the oilrig closest to the foreground. Across these structures to the right sits an automobile behind a wooden fence. At the rightmost corner, a portion of another derrick can be seen, with a tank and piping at its base. A cloud of smoke curls from smoke stacks in the leftmost corner. The distance is a veritable sea of derricks.; Photoprint reads: "Long Beach, Calif. Oil at 10,000 feet under the earth's surface is one of the geological secrets uncovered by the Shell Company's Nasa Well No. 11, the deepest hole in the world. Eight months have been required in sinking the shaft, which is in the rich Signal Hill field near Long Beach, and the downward drilling will be continued as long as it is possible mechanically. In the center of this picture is shown the derrick and hoisting machinery by means of which the "deepest hole in the world" was drilled".

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Title Shell Oil Nasa Well No. 11 in Long Beach, ca.1930

Subject Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles County -- Long Beach (file heading), Machinery (lcsh), Oil wells (lcsh), Shell Oil Co. (subject), wells (adlf)

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 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1930

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-m8009

Identifier 41128 (accession number), CHS-41128 (call number), CHS-41128 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8333 (legacy record id), chs-m8009 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-8140 (legacy record id), 84-1-1738 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8333

Unique identifier UC125855

Legacy Identifier CHS-41128.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 20.7 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 52.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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