Oil well base in front of a house at the Venice oil field, Los Angeles, circa 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- Oil well base in front of a house at the Venice oil field, Los Angeles, circa 1930
- Photographer
- Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
- Date Created
- [circa 1930]
- Date
- 1930
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Notes
- Description
- View of the base of an oil derrick with signs reading "Keep Out," and "No Smoking," with a house and more oil derricks visible in the background at the Venice oil field.
- Caption
-
Handwritten on negative: S-L-R (Petroleum Properties LTD) Venice - Del Rey Oil Field
Text from negative sleeve: Del Rey Fourl No. 4. 4-1-'35. [negative mis-filed]
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--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1756_0114
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j2611
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- unknown
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.