Floor of oil rig at San Jerónimo field in Mexico, 1922
Item
Identifier: 2011.004.004887
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Photograph album with 247 photographs depicting Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City; Tennessee River and other scenes in Alabama; buildings, railroad tracks, and flooding in Texas; Rio Grande in Texas; villages with huts in Mexico; Sierra Madre in Mexico; banana grove in Mexico; people in the cities of Tampico and Veracruz, Mexico; bullfight; coconut grove; El Aguila Camp near Tuxpan on the Tuxpan River; barges; vegetation and landscape views in Mexico; corn fields; Los Naranjos Camp; Walter Jones in Mexico; Las Lomas Camp; oil fires, fields, and rigs in Mexico; tankers on the Pánuco River; basalt, shale, and limestone in Mexico; and one Valentine heart.
Dates
- 1922
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Extent
From the Series: 247 Gelatin Developing-out Paper Prints
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General note
Caption: On rig floor of San Geronimo #6, flowing heavy oil "by head." Taken 8 hours before she finally blew in - Oil is about 14 Baume.
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository