View of the Venice oil field, a landscape of derricks, with steam pipes and buildings made of wood and corrugated metal at their bases, with the beach on the far left. The foreground center building has signs reading "Flynn Bros." and "No Smoking, Keep Out." Signs on the derricks read "Bergman Albright No. 3," "Pan Gulf Pet. Co. LTD, Hattie Weber Mabel [..]orner, Well No [...]," "S.L.R. Pet. Prop's LTD., J. T. Russell No. 1," "Pan Gulf Petroleum Co. Ltd., Venice No. 1," "[...] Powell-Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 1," and "Know Powell Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 4."
Oil wells listed on the plan are: 1) Superior-Huffman, 2) Felix, 3) Milham, 4) C. C. friend, 5) "Veco," 6) Shell Williams, 7) J. J. Richie, 8) S. O. Co. Alferitz, 9) Lincoln Betty, 10) Scott Bros. Dr. Co., 11) Belridge, 12) So Co Mascol, 13) Temblor O. & D. Co., 14) Universal #49, 15) Shell-Porter Day, 16) Wilshire O. Co., 17) Mohawk-Weed Patch, 18) Shell-Semitropic, 19) Roy White
Collection consists of posters on topics covering politics, religion, popular music, general health education, HIV/AIDS, tourism, commercial advertisement, film and television, sports and culture. The posters are mostly in full color with texts featuring Amharic, English, French, Italian, Arabic, Oromo, and Swahili languages in 3 scripts: mainly in Ethiopic and roman, with some also in Arabic.
