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Description:: View of men posed on the drill floor of an oil well probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. Three men in dress trousers and shirts are next to an automobile with a sign on the door reading Chanel Oil Co. LTD., and seven workmen are on the wooden plank platform of the oil well base. The parked truck on the right has a sign reading "California Machinery Supply Co., Titusville Products."
Date:: November 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Five workers gathered around a casing elevator at the Venice of Playa del Rey oil field in Venice in front of a building. Raised lettering on the casing elevator reads "Wilson Elevator."
Date:: November 2, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of 4 men dressed in suits standing next to the travelling block at the base of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. Other oil rigs are visible in the background.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Group photographic portrait of eleven men and women seated on the drill floor of an oil well. The group includes five workers; one man in a suit; three men in slacks, shirts and ties; and two nicely dressed women. Pipes are all around and a large flywheel can be seen at left. The drill floor is made from thick wooden planks.
Date:: [between 1930-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of a wooden building with a sign reading "Bergman-Albright Oil and Gas Co. LTD Field Office, General Office 1008 Spring, Arcade Bldg.[...]Chas. F. Sm[...]Selling Ag[...]. Seven men in suits lined up outside of the office with another man standing alone of the right. A small wooden oil derrick is behind the building on the left. Cars are parked on the left and other small buildings line the street on the right.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Venice oil field with oil derricks, storage tanks and buildings. Signs on the derricks read "Knox-Powell-Stockton Co. Inc., W. G. Davis No. 4," "Camino Gasoline," "Cory & Randall, Venice No. 1," and "Goldsmith Bros. Inc., Adams & Mathews No. 1." Signs on buildings read "Skinner & Evans, Oil Operators, Beverly Hills, Venice, We Finance Oil Wells," "Royalty Percents [...]," "Walker Arms Garage," and "Oil Fields Emergency Hospital."
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Santa Monica Bay coastline from Posetano Road facing west towards the Castillo del Mar, under construction, at 17531 Posetano Road. The Castillo del Mar once belonged to director Roland West and his actress wife Jewel Carmen. In the distance above the coast is the Villa Leon (17948 Porto Marina Way). A footbridge crosses over the Pacific Coast Highway and Castle Rock is visible beyond, in the middle distance.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Pershing Square from Normal School (6th Street and Hill Street), Los Angeles. Also visible are the First Baptist Church, Saint Vincent College, and the Episcopal Cathedral.
Date:: [circa 1884]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of Pershing Square taken at Normal School. Visible buildings include First Baptist Church, Saint Vincent College, and the Episcopal Cathedral.
Date:: [circa 1884]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of businesses, pedestrians and cars on the 300 block of S. Broadway, facing towards 4th St. Decorative flags on cables hang above the street. Businesses include the Santa Barbara Hotel at 326 1/2, the Boos Bros Cafeteria, Baker $ Stores, Morton Stores, Barnes Music Co. and the Broadway Department Store and the corner of Broadway and 4th St. A cable car is visible on the street as well as a Calif. Co-operative Creamery Co. truck and an F. W. Hardin truck.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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