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Title: Old Venice Oil Field
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1975
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The former Venice Oil Field, located south of Venice, in what is modern day Marina del Rey, sometimes called Playa del Rey. An airplane takes off from LAX in the background. A rotting old canal bridge still gives access to the oil field area.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049676
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 331
CARL0000053665
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17954
Subject: Channels (Hydraulic engineering--California--Marina del Rey
Bridges--California--Marina del Rey
Oil fields--California--Marina del Rey
Unincorporated areas--California--Los Angeles County
Marina del Rey (Calif.)
Ballona Wetlands (Calif.)
Venice Oil Field (Calif.)
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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