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Workmen posed on the drill floor of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field, Los Angeles, 1930

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Title: Workmen posed on the drill floor of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field, Los Angeles, 1930
Contributor: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930-11-01
November 1, 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 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."
Type: image
Identifier: uclamss_1756_0027
ark:/21198/zz002j2323
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Playa del Rey Oil Field (Calif.)
Source: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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