Exterior view of the Bergman-Albright Oil Company field office building in the Playa del Rey oil field on the Venice peninsula, ca.1925

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Bergman-Albright Oil Company field office building in the Playa del Rey oil field on the Venice peninsula, ca.1925. The Bergman-Albright building, a two-story clapboard building constructed in the Monterey style of architecture, sits at center. Seven men stand in front of the building on the left, while another stands alone at the right. A sign above the doorway reads "Office", while a sign painted on to the right of the building reads "Bergman-Albright Oil and Gas Co. Ltd. Field Office. General Office 1008 Sprin[?]. Arcade Bl[?] MU-1493[?]. Chas F. Smi[?] Selling Ag[ent]". Dirt or sand covers the ground in front of the building; an automobile is parked in it at the left edge of the image, while a sign in the lower right reads "No Parking". A paved street runs along the right of the image, lined by residential-type buildings and a few automobiles. The ocean is visible in the left background.

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Title Exterior view of the Bergman-Albright Oil Company field office building in the Playa del Rey oil field on the Venice peninsula, ca.1925

Subject Bergman-Albright Oil Company (subject), buildings (adlf), Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles Basin (file heading), 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 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12413

Identifier 31068 (accession number), CHS-31068 (call number), CHS-31068 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11750 (legacy record id), chs-m12413 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12568 (legacy record id), 1-115-66 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11750

Unique identifier UC130561

Legacy Identifier CHS-31068.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
49.5 cm × 39.4 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

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