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Description:: Exterior view of Madison School, a brick and stone building with a crenellated tower surmounted by a weathervane. the school was located at 1020 Arizona Ave.
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View towards wide unpaved walkways lined by large garden beds with lawns, palm trees, pine trees and other trees and shrubs.
Date:: [circa 1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Upper photo: Sightseers strolling on the walkway between rows of buildings on the Venice Beach pier.
Date:: [circa 1915-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of a workman standing next to the draw works (and possibly the mud pump behind) in a corrugated metal shed at the oil well "Fourl No. 3" at the Playa del Rey oil field.
Date:: January 1935
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 an oil derrick with small wooden buildings at its base and 4 storage tanks beyond. Two more derricks and storage tanks are visible on the hill in the background.
Date:: March 8, 1931
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 oil wells with small buildings, boilers and storage tanks around them. The sign on the center well reads "Pacific Shore Oil Co. LTD., Brick No. 1, D. M. Divani No. 3, D. Tomlinson," and the sign on the well behind it reads "Wood Petroleum Corp. LTD., Well [...]" The oil wells are on a road with 2 traditional street lights which look out of place in this industrial setting.
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 from a road towards Stockburger oil wells at the Playa del Rey oil field
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
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 a Universal crane truck parked in an oil field with oil wells in the background, probably in Los Angeles. A sign on the truck reads "Maaco Construction Co., Tel. Jefferson 6261, Inglewood 2763." "Universal" is painted on the truck.
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:: Photograph of a small building with a sigh reading "Petroleum Equipment Co.,” with men gathered in front and 1 automobile parked in the foreground. A church is visible in the background on the left.
Date:: April 17, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Row 1 left: View of Topanga Beach Drive and Topanga Beach with houses on the shore.
Date:: [between 1919-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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