Derrick at the Mount View Oil Field's Dana Hogan Discovery Well, Bakersfield vicinity, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Derrick at the Mount View Oil Field's Dana Hogan Discovery Well, Bakersfield vicinity, 1934

Photographer

Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946

Date Created

May 1934

Date

1934-05

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Notes

Description

View of an oil derrick at the Mount View Oil Field's Dana Hogan Discovery Well near Bakersfield. Oil drilling equipment is visible around the base. Three cylindrical tanks are on the left and other drilling rigs are visible in the distance. Wooden stakes are placed in the ground forming a grid pattern and a car is parked beyond them on the right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: May 1934, Dana Hogan - Discovery Well. Mt. View Oil Field, (near Bakersfield)
Handwritten on negative: No 2

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Bakersfield (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Oil well drilling rigs--California--Bakersfield
Petroleum industry--California--Bakersfield