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File:Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920 (CHS-2498).jpg

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Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920
Photograph of a Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920. The well was owned by Standard Oil (10-36. 31-23). The blow-out consisted of 20,000 barrels of oil. At least 6 other derricks are visible in the hilly distance behind the oil gushing upward out of the derrick. Pipes lay in a pile at left adjacent to one of the oil rig shacks.
Call number: CHS-2498
Legacy record ID: chs-m12359; USC-1-1-1-12514
Photographer: Clendenen, L.M.
Filename: CHS-2498
Coverage date: circa 1920
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Taft
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 2498
Microfiche number: 1-115-13
Archival file: chs_Volume78/CHS-2498.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): oil fields
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Industry -- Oil -- Kern County
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Kern
Subject (lcsh): Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum refineries
Subject: Standard Oil Company
Date circa 1920
date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/11805
Author Clendenen, L.M.

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