La Brea Oil Field, ca.1910-1930

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Photograph of a General Petroleum Company oil field, possibly the Fullerton Oil Field, in La Brea Canyon, Orange County, California, ca.1910-1930. Numerous oil derricks dot the hilly landscape devoid of all trees. Holding tanks and small utilitarian structures huddle around the base of the wells. An unpaved road is visible in the left foreground as is a utility pole.

Asset Metadata

Title La Brea Oil Field, ca.1910-1930

Subject General Petroleum Co. (subject), Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles County (file heading), oil fields (adlf), Oil wells (lcsh), Orange County (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), La Brea Canyon (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), oil fields: Brea Oil Field (geographic subject), oil fields: Fullerton Oil Field (geographic subject), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910/1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1910/1930

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-m8005

Identifier 2481 (accession number), CHS-2481 (call number), CHS-2481 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8331 (legacy record id), chs-m8005 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8137 (legacy record id), 1-115-11 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8331

Unique identifier UC125641

Legacy Identifier CHS-2481.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.3 cm × 33.9 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

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