Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View of shoreline with oil wells looking north.
photCL Pierce 06587
Visual Materials
A slightly elevated panoramic view of the oil field of Signal Hill, facing north and east. There are hundreds of oil rigs, or derricks, across the landscape. Among the oil rigs there are streets of houses, as well as numerous vacant lots. There are railroad tracks on the far left side of the image. Small clouds of smoke or steam are coming out of the ground near one of the oil rigs in the foreground. Writing in white in the bottom left corner reads "No. 226 ; C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico Blvd."
photCL 470 (166)
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Image of an intersection at Alvarado Street and Ocean View Avenue (street names visible on corner sign) in the Westlake Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, with a Mission Revival house on the corner and oil wells in the background. Street railroad tracks can be seen in the dirt road. There are sprinklers and a man with a hose watering the lawn on the corner.
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Oil Wells Substation - Westinghouse motor at Oil Wells
photCL SCE 02 - 05382
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O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Oil Well at Ventura - Electric Equipment - motors.
photCL SCE 02 - 19613
Visual Materials
O1 - Oil Wells & Equipment - Oil Well at Ventura - Electric Equipment - resistance.
photCL SCE 02 - 19614