Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Bergman-Albright Oil Company field office building in the Playa del Rey oil field on the Venice peninsula, ca.1925. The Bergman-Albright building, a two-story clapboard building constructed in the Monterey style of architecture, sits at center. Seven men stand in front of the building on the left, while another stands alone at the right. A sign above the doorway reads "Office", while a sign painted on to the right of the building reads "Bergman-Albright Oil and Gas Co. Ltd. Field Office. General Office 1008 Sprin[?]. Arcade Bl[?] MU-1493[?]. Chas F. Smi[?] Selling Ag[ent]". Dirt or sand covers the ground in front of the building an automobile is parked in it at the left edge of the image, while a sign in the lower right reads "No Parking". A paved street runs along the right of the image, lined by residential-type buildings and a few automobiles. The ocean is visible in the left background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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