Oil field on Pacific Avenue, looking south from Venice near Washington Street, January 26, 1931

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Photograph of an oil field on Pacific Avenue, looking south from Venice near Washington Street, January 26, 1931. A street extends from the left foreground to the left distance. Several automobiles (cars) sit parked along the street's left side. Hundreds of oil derricks stand on either side of the street, their peeks visible in the distance. Each derrick is labeled with its oil company's name. Visible labels include "El Camino Gasoline" and "Allstate". Smoke secretes from the bases of the derricks where small buildings stand.

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Title Oil field on Pacific Avenue, looking south from Venice near Washington Street, January 26, 1931

Subject oil fields (adlf), Oil well drilling rigs (lcsh), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Streets--California (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Venice (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1931-01-26

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1931-01-26

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17227

Identifier 36987 (accession number), CHS-36987 (call number), CHS-36987 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17233 (legacy record id), chs-m17227 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17233

Unique identifier UC141491

Legacy Identifier CHS-36987.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
47.3 cm × 34.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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