Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Painted Hill oil well
- Description
- Photo of an oil well.
- Date
- approximately 1915
- Call number
- photCL 39 (336)
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A slightly elevated panoramic view of an oil field at Signal Hill. There are several dozen oil rigs, or derricks, most with sheds or circular structures, distributed along dirt roads. There is an office for the Armadillo Oil Company on the left, and ms. markings on the right show where Well No. 1 of the Hub Petroleum Corporation is located. There are two notes in white just left of center, reading "Photo No. 1. By ; C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico L.A." and "Long Beach Oil Field ; "Signal Hill" ; 1-18-1931".
photCL 470 (175)
Image not available
Visual Materials
Image of a man walking away from a plume of smoke from an oil well fire in an oil field, with an automobile and oil tanks in the distance presumably in Southern California.
photCL_555_01_361
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O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Oil Well - Pulling Machine (portable).
photCL SCE 02 - 18023
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O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Deepest Oil Well and oil workers - CCMO - Ventura.
photCL SCE 02 - 17549
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O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Deepest Oil Well and oil worker - CCMO - Ventura.
photCL SCE 02 - 17550
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O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Deepest Oil Well - CCMO - Ventura.
photCL SCE 02 - 17551