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 a view of the Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1920. A forest of oil rigs meets the eye at center, panning out to fill both sides of the picture. In the foreground, the water stands between two shorelines, on the banks of which several tanks sit at left, while a lone derrick rises at right. A series of house-like sheds, tanks, pipes and stacks are found beneath the bases of the oil rigs, from which spew several plumes of smoke. A lone log floats across the water, while several strands of lines stream from utility poles across it.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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