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Title: View of the Venice oil field, Los Angeles, circa 1930
Contributor: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
[circa 1930]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Pierce (C.C.) Photographic Collection
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Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
View of the Venice oil field with oil derricks, storage tanks and buildings. Signs on the derricks read "Knox-Powell-Stockton Co. Inc., W. G. Davis No. 4," "Camino Gasoline," "Cory & Randall, Venice No. 1," and "Goldsmith Bros. Inc., Adams & Mathews No. 1." Signs on buildings read "Skinner & Evans, Oil Operators, Beverly Hills, Venice, We Finance Oil Wells," "Royalty Percents [...]," "Walker Arms Garage," and "Oil Fields Emergency Hospital."
Type: image
Identifier: uclamss_1756_0023
ark:/21198/zz002j22xj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Source: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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