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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1920
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View of the Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1920
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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.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the Playa del Rey oil field near Venice, ca.1920
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
1920
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
1920
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-m12407
Identifier
41139 (
accession number
), CHS-41139 (
call number
), CHS-41139 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11923 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12407 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12562 (
legacy record id
), 1-115-75 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11923
Unique identifier
UC130863
Legacy Identifier
CHS-41139.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
21.0 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
53.4 cm × 41.5 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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