Names: Union Oil Company of California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of an oil gusher on Signal Hill, with an arrow pointing to the erupting derrick at center. In front of the gusher stands another tall wooden derrick, surrounded by shacks and a tank. Other derricks are visible in the background. In the foreground sits a pool of water.
Date:: [circa 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of a gusher from a Union Oil Company well in Santa Fe Springs, with large storage tanks on the left.
Date:: [between 1920-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of an oil gusher on Signal Hill, in the center of the photograph, with an arrow pointing to the derrick and surrounded by other wooden derricks. The tops of palm trees are visible across the foreground.
Date:: [circa 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The tall and dark plumes of smoke fill the sky as several reservoirs containing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were set afire by lightning at the Brea tank farm of the Union Oil Company. The photo was taken from a nearby fruit grove and the soil appears to be flooded by the oil. Reported in "SECOND TANK FARM AFIRE; LOSSES REACH $18,000,000," The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Apr. 1926: 1.
Date:: [circa April 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The tall and dark plumes of smoke fill the cloudy sky as several reservoirs containing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were set afire by lightning at the Brea tank farm of the Union Oil Company. The photo was taken from a nearby fruit grove and the soil appears to be flooded by the oil. Reported in "SECOND TANK FARM AFIRE; LOSSES REACH $18,000,000," The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Apr. 1926: 1.
Date:: [circa April 8, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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