View of the Venice oil field with the ocean on the left, Los Angeles, 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- View of the Venice oil field with the ocean on the left, Los Angeles, 1930
- Photographer
- Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
- Date Created
- November 10, 1930
- Date
- 1930-11-10
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Notes
- Description
- View of the Venice oil field, a landscape of derricks, with steam pipes and buildings made of wood and corrugated metal at their bases, with the beach on the far left. Three men stand of the front porch of the foreground center building, with signs reading "Flynn Bros." and "No Smoking, Keep Out." Signs on the derricks read "Bergman Albright No. 3," "Pan Gulf Pet. Co. LTD, Hattie Weber Mabel [..]orner, Well No [...]," "S.L.R. Pet. Prop's LTD., J. T. Russell No. 1," "Pan Gulf Petroleum Co. Ltd., Venice No. 1," "Knox- Powell-Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 1," "Knox Powell Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 4," and "Ideaco."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
- Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1756_0050
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j23v0
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- unknown
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.