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

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:: View of oil rig workers on the drill floor of an oil well with one worker in front of the rotary table and drill pipe as 3 workers look on, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. Derricks are visible in the background on the right.
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:: 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:: 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

Description:: Woman standing in front of a wall of installed electronic equipment stands in front of electronic equipment on a cart.
Date:: [circa June-July 1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman posing in front of the Memorial Sports Arena sign during the Democratic National Convention. The sign reads: The Democratic National Convention, July 11 Thru 15. Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Date:: July 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman posing in front of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
Date:: [circa July 8, 1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Holden standing for an x-ray administered by nurse Jean Hall. He was enlisting in the United States Army Air Force.
Date:: April 20, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Holden receiving his Look magazine award for acting from Gardner and Fleur Cowles on the Eddie Cantor TV show in Los Angeles.
Date:: March 7, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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