Knox Powell oil well probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field, Los Angeles, 1930-1940

Item Overview

Title

Knox Powell oil well probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field, Los Angeles, 1930-1940

Photographer

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

Date Created

[between 1930-1940]

Date

1930/1940

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

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

Notes

Description

View inside of a wooden barrel-vaulted structure at the Knox Powell oil well at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. A man in a suit and a workman men stand on the left and another workman is seated at the back next 4 valves and a sign reading "Please, Do Not Talk to Employees, W. G. Davis." There is machinery on the right.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: C. C. Pierce, 1572 W. Pico, L.A.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Playa del Rey Oil Field (Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles