Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Playa del Rey Oil Field (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of 2 workers on the drill floor of an oil well at the travelling block, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field.
Date:: November 12, 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 portrait of well-dressed men and women on the drill floor of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. The drill pipe and rotary table are 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:: Group portrait of men in suits and workers gathered behind the drill pipe and rotary table on the drill floor of an oil well.
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 a large storage tank (left), oil wells and an office with a sign reading "Pacific Drilling Corp. Field Office, Los Angeles Office." Five men are on either side of the office and an automobile is parked in front. A tanker truck with a man sitting on top of the tank and additional automobiles are parked on the left.
Date:: April 21, 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 mud pumps in a corrugated metal shed at the oil well "Fourl No. 4" at the Playa del Rey oil field. Embossed on the machinery is "EMSCO Case Steel Pattern."
Date:: April 1, 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 a workman standing next to the draw works on the drill floor of oil well "Fourl No. 4" at the Playa del Rey oil field.
Date:: April 1, 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 the base of oil well "Fourl No. 4" and mud pumps in a shed beside it at the Playa del Rey oil field.
Date:: April 1, 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 a row of 8 boilers with tall smoke stacks at the Playa del Rey oil field.
Date:: [circa 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 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.
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:: Six workers gathered around a casing elevator at the Venice or 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

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