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View of the Venice oil field with the ocean on the left, Los Angeles, 1930

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Title: View of the Venice oil field with the ocean on the left, Los Angeles, 1930
Contributor: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued: November 10, 1930
1930-11-10
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Pierce (C.C.) Photographic Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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. Three men stand of the front porch of the foreground center building, with 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," "Knox- Powell-Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 1," "Knox Powell Stockton, W. G. Davis No. 4," and "Ideaco."
Handwritten on negative: Photo By C. C. Pierce & Co., 1572 W. Pico St. L.A. 11-10-1930.
Type: image
Identifier: uclamss_1756_0050
ark:/21198/zz002j23v0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Oil wells--California--Signal Hill
Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Source: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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