Vintage Oil Well Drilling Photo Roughnecks Amazon Corp Crew Pierce #6 CA 1920's

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Estate sale find, original vintage cabinet photo, Amazon Drilling Corporation, Pierce #6, Decker, Driller, Denison, Burton, Vineyard, Blaswich.  based on the limited online research it appears to be from the 1920's.  Exact location unknown, possibly somewhere in California as the company had operations in the state.
From the following:
Industrial Activity and Its Socioeconomic Impacts: Oil and Three Coastal California Counties
Final Technical Summary
Final Study Report
Authors Russell J. Schmitt, Jenifer E. Dugan, Principal Investigators, and Michael R. Adamson
by Coastal Marine Institute, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service Camarillo
Pacific OCS Region, May 2003
One Hundred Thirty-Five Years of Tri-County Oil Activity - Oil and gas activity in California’s Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties has a long history. Serious efforts to develop commercial quantities of crude oil date from the Civil War. Comprising the bulk of the productive area of the state’s coastal district and part of the San Joaquin valley district...
Under general superintendent A. E. Warren, Associated used rotary rigs to prove the field.
Amazon Drilling Corporation, whom Warren employed as drilling contractors, completed the
first major well, Lloyd No. 5, in October 1922 (Associated Oil Company 1922a, 1926b)....
Measurement: approximately 7.75 X 10", image area, 5" X 7", approximate shipping weight: 6 ounces.
CLICK DESCRIPTION AND SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The photo is in overall Good Minus condition, corner crease, signs of wear, age toning, soiling, please see images.
(C1C3-006)