Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934 - 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:: William Mulholland (possibly), with a mustache and wearing a suit and hat, standing on a dirt driveway lined by large pepper (?) trees, with a Victorian house at the end of the drive
Date:: [between 1898 and 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View into a mountain ravine with utility poles and where a water pipe system appears to be under construction. Two men are in the ravine; one is mostly hidden by a utility pole and the other is possibly William Mulholland. The man is standing with his hands on his hips, is wearing dark pants, a dark open vest, a light shirt and neck tie and a wide-brimmed hat. A parked car is on the left.
Date:: [between 1905 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Wide dirt path in Echo Park with large trees on the left, bushes on the right and pedestrian in the distance. The park was formerly known as Second Street Park.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Woman standing at display booth for Whistle Bottling Works. Behind the woman is a display with three shelves of bottles Tilton beverages. Signs read: Whistle Bottling Works distributors of Tilton quality sodas, Anaheim, Long Beach, just whistle, a beverage wrapped in bottles.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of well-dressed men and women stand around the rotary table on the drill floor of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. A man and women place their hands on the drill pipe as the other watch.
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 Warner's ranch and the Cupeño Indian village in the distance, with adobe brick houses with thatched roofs, before their relocation to the Pala Indian Reservation in 1903.
Date:: [circa 1898-1901]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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