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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:: J. Crampton Anderson with Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau, receivers for the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve. They are seated at a desk holding papers and a book. Reported in "RESERVE RECEIVERS SWORN: Admiral Rousseau and Pan-American Head Assume Duties Soon After Qualifying," Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 1924: A9.
Date:: March 24, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Oil magnate E. L. Doheny (3rd from left) standing with his attorneys Joseph J. Cotter (left), Frederic R. Kellogg (2nd from left) and Frank J. Hogan (right).
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears with photo page "Camera Catches Nation's Prominent Oil Men at Convention," Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 1926: 8.
Date:: January 20, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears on the photo page "Camera Catches Nation's Prominent Oil Men at Convention," Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 1926: 8.
Date:: January 20, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mark Requa, Republican National Committeeman of California attending a meeting at the California Thirty-two club. He spoke in favor of re-electing Herbert Hoover as president to the club's members at the Chester Brown Home. Photo appears with the article "REQUA SOUNDS HOOVER CALL: Republican Leader Speaker at First Rally Here Renomination Urged for Best Interests of Nation Scott Also Heard Before Thirty-two Club," Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1931: A1-A2.
Date:: July 17, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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

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