Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of a house on a residential street next to other houses with 2 large signs each reading "Venice Consolidated Oil Co. LTD., Whitsell No. 2." and one small sign reading "Venice Consolidated Oil Co. LTD>, Whitsell No. 2, McKenna No. 1." Two men wearing suits stand on the left. Four oil wells are visible behind the houses.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Group portrait of six men standing in front of a Pacific Drilling Corporation oil well at the Playa del Rey. Three men wear suits, on wears a trench coat and 2 wear sweaters and slacks.
Date:: April 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the oil well "Fourl No. 3" at the Playa del Rey oil field, with 3 other derricks and automobiles in the background. Smoke streams from a pipe in the center and two men stand conferring in the distance on the right.
Date:: January 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of a Universal crane truck, seen from the back, parked in an oil field with oil wells in the background, probably in Los Angeles. A sign on the truck reads "Maaco Construction Co., Tel. Jefferson 6261, Inglewood 2763." "Universal" is painted on the truck.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of a Universal crane truck parked in an oil field with oil wells in the background, probably in Los Angeles. A sign on the truck reads "Maaco Construction Co., Tel. Jefferson 6261, Inglewood 2763." "Universal" is painted on the truck.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View workers at the base of an oil rig, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. Three men in slacks and shirts confer in front of 2 automobiles in the foreground. The cars have signs on the doors reading "Chanel Oil Co. LTD. V-4," and "California Machinery and Supply Co., Titusville Products." More derricks are visible in the background on the right.
Date:: November 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of the base of an oil well with signs reading "Lawrence Pacific No. 1, Limited Number of Royalty Percents Available in this Outstanding Location. Do Not Delay. Apply At Office" and "Lawrence-Pacific No. 1, 510 [...] OVI Bldg. 617 So. Olive."
Date:: November 2, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the base of an oil derrick with a structure covered in corrugated metal sheets owned by the H. L. J. Oil Co. at the Playa Del Rey oil field. A man is standing in the center of the photograph.
Date:: January 24, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of 4 men dressed in suits standing next to the travelling block at the base of an oil well, probably at the Venice or Playa del Rey oil field. Other oil rigs are visible in the background.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of 8 workmen gathered around a flatbed truck next to an oil derrick at the Venice oil field with signs on the 2 foreground derricks reading "McDonald Petroleum LTD., Venice No. 2," and "Flag Petroleum Corp. Ltd., Well No. 1," and the sign on the distant oil well on the right reading "Marcel Oil & Gas Corp., Black No. 1." Sheds are attached to the base of the middle derrick and distant derricks.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. $q(Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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