US 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
Description
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (in front) are shown how oil wells are drilled and how oil is pumped out of the ground when drilling is finished. Their guide (2nd from right, seen from the back) is probably A. C. (Albert Chatfield) Rubel, a petroleum engineer for Union Oil Company. Reported in "ROYAL PAIR LEAVE CITY: Departure Taken for Yosemite Swedish Crown Prince States Period Spent Here Marks Epoch in Life Large Crowd Waits at Depot to Tender Distinguished Guests Farewell, " Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1926: 1. Text from negative sleeve: Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3731_G4779 ark:/21198/z1091zbf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Princes--Sweden Oil wells--California--Signal Hill Princesses--Sweden Rubel, A. C. (Albert Chatfield), 1895-1967 Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden, 1882-1973 Louise, Queen, consort of Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden, 1889-1965
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