Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of passengers standing aboard the S. S. Catalina as the ferry sails through a channel in San Pedro Harbor. The S. S. Catalina enters frame from the right half of the bottom edge and stretches back to the right. Passengers stand and occupy all available space on the top deck. Funnels, a mast and rigging line the center of the ship along the right edge. To the left of the ship, a channel stretches wide to the left and back into the distance behind the ferry. Large petroleum drums stand along the left shore of the channel. Signs on the walls in front of the drums reads, "GARGOYLE," and "GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION." Farther along the peninsula, cranes and docks stand as it stretches into the distance.
Date:: [between July 29-30, 1948]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Ruth Jackson with unknown. This is most likely the same Ruth Jackson who was on the board of directors for the Kern Ridge Oil Company
Date:: [1941]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ruth Jackson with a group of unidentified men. This is most likely the same Ruth Jackson who was on the board of directors for the Kern Ridge Oil Company
Date:: [1941]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of Norval White who headed the office of American Petroleum Institute in Los Angeles (6th St. and Grand Ave., Security Title Insurance and Guarantee Bldg.). The Institute had moved its office from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1930.
Date:: October 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A different photograph of Norval White taken on the same occasion appears in the article, "Oil Institute Moved Here; Western Headquarters of National Organization Transferred from San Francisco." Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct., 1930: A1.
Date:: October 7, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Notice of Assessment pertaining to the Julian mining company associated with the Julian Petroleum company, dated September 21, 1929.
Date:: [between 1929-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [between 1926-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Page listing investment activities of C. C. Julian, possibly used in a court case with Judge Doran presiding.
Date:: [between 1924-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Sinclair Bid Looked For/Sinclair Bid Expected at Richfield Oil Sale," Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan 1936: 1.
Date:: January 30, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The return address of the letter is that of the New Monte Cristo Mining Co., headed by C. C. Julian. The date of the post mark matches the date of a letter with a progress report sent by C. C. Julian to the company stock holders (see image ark nos. 21198/zz002cv969, 21198/zz002hbmxf, and 21198/zz002hbmvd).
Date:: [between 1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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