Visit to an Oil Field in Purissima Hills, USA Possibly 1908
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"Visit to an Oil Field in Purissima Hills, USA" is a photograph taken by Geldolph Adriaan Kessler, likely around 1908. The image depicts an oil field in California, capturing the industrial landscape of the early 20th century. The photograph shows a building, possibly a pump house, with an oil derrick in the background and a car parked in the foreground. It highlights the growing importance of oil extraction in the early 1900s and offers a glimpse into the nascent American oil industry.
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In 1908 Kessler accompanied the director of Koninklijke Olie (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, later Shell), Henri Deterding, as secretary on a world tour. He travelled to Canada and the United States via the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, China, and Japan. Dolph’s photo album contains pictures of an oil field in California, as well as San Francisco’s town hall which had collapsed during an earthquake.
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