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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925
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Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925
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Description
Photograph of Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925. At center rise several metal derricks, some bearing signs on their towers. One to the left reads "KNOX POWELL STOCKTON WG DAVIS No. 4", while another behind it bears the sign "CAMINO Gasoline" across from yet another derrick bearing "CORY RANDALL Venice No.1". Beneath the oilrigs lie a series of structures, tanks, stacks and pipes. In the foreground sits a house-like structure bearing the name "Oil Fields Emergency Hospital" in front of another that reads "Walker Arms Garage." Beside these at right streams a street across which several automobiles, carts and people travel. Several plumes of smoke spew from stacks a the rightmost corner of the field beneath an oil derrick that reads "GOLDSMIT BROS INC [?]". In the distance, one can discern a residential area beneath a hillside. The mountains fade into the clouds in the far reaches of the background.
Asset Metadata
Title
Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1925
Subject
Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles County -- Venice Playa del Rey
(file heading),
oil fields
(adlf),
Petroleum industry and trade
(lcsh),
Petroleum refineries
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Playa del Rey
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries),
Venice
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1925
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1925
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12421
Identifier
41146 (
accession number
), CHS-41146 (
call number
), CHS-41146 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11930 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12421 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12576 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-84 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11930
Unique identifier
UC130856
Legacy Identifier
CHS-41146.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.5 in × 21.0 in at 300dpi
41.9 cm × 53.4 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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