Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: View towards the base of oil well probably at the Venice oil field with the ocean in background on the left. A worker unloads drilling equipment from a "Speed & Service Truck Co. Brea 62" flatbed truck. Nine other workers are on the platform at the base of the derrick. Two workers are on top of the derrick base building. More men are outside a house with wood siding in the background 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:: Photograph of a well-dressed crowd gathered at an oil well. There is a storage tank on the left and another oil well 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:: View towards the base of oil well probably at the Venice oil field with the ocean in background on the left. A worker unloads drilling equipment from a "Speed & Service Truck Co. Brea 62" flatbed truck. Nine other workers are on the platform at the base of the derrick. Two workers are on top of the derrick base building. More men are outside a house with wood siding in the background 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:: Photograph of a well-dressed crowd gathered at an oil well. Thereis a storage tank on the left and another oil well 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:: 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:: Probably photographed at the Sunset Bowling Center, located on the Old Warner Brothers Studio lot along Sunset Boulevard (now Sunset Bronson Studios). Text etched into the bowling ball (lower row, R) reads: "Property of S.B.C." The facility is noted in the Los Angeles Times as being a location for bowling tournaments, most notably between film studios, dates spanning 1939-1951.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Description:: Probably photographed at the Sunset Bowling Center, located on the Old Warner Brothers Studio lot along Sunset Boulevard (now Sunset Bronson Studios). Text etched into the bowling balls: "Property of S.B.C." The facility is noted in the Los Angeles Times as being a location for bowling tournaments, most notably between film studios, dates spanning 1939-1951.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Description:: Probably photographed at the Sunset Bowling Center, located on the Old Warner Brothers Studio lot along Sunset Boulevard (now Sunset Bronson Studios). Text etched into the bowling balls: "Property of S.B.C." The facility is noted in the Los Angeles Times as being a location for bowling tournaments, most notably between film studios, dates spanning 1939-1951.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Description:: Pat Parrish appeared in Columbia Pictures films in 1944 and 1945.
Date:: [circa 1944-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Columbia Pictures stills and key books

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