Mr. and Mrs. James Roy Willis show a map of the oil land they inherited, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Mr. and Mrs. James Roy Willis show a map of the oil land they inherited, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- March 15, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mr. James Roy Willis stands next to his wife, who sits on the arm of a chair. Together they hold a map.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “W.P.A. Worker Rated Millionaire by Oil Find: Swamp Land Many Believed Worth less gives Fortune to Family of Louisiana Doctor,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1936: 1.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Willis, James Roy, Mrs.
Willis, James Roy, 1890-1966 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.088303
- Latitude
- -118.305303
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Maps
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Inheritance & succession
Millionaires--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12992
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hn3pm
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .