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Portrait photographs of M. M. Humphries, president of Ameroil Corporation, and Leah Currer, who became Leah Standage, 1935 (copy photo)

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Title: Portrait photographs of M. M. Humphries, president of Ameroil Corporation, and Leah Currer, who became Leah Standage, 1935 (copy photo)
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa June 29, 1935]
1935-06-29
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Text accompanying the right photograph in the newspaper: Mrs. Louis Standage.
The left photograph appears in "Woman Drilling in Wildcat Field," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jul 1935: A19.
Copy photo
On June 29, 1935, Leah Currer married Lewis White Standage.
Portrait photographs of M. M. Humphries (left) and Leah Currer.
The right photograph appears in "Miss Currer Becomes Bride of Standage," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jun 1935: 28.
Image 7755 comprises of images 7756 and 7757.
Left photograph: Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Humphries became the president of Ameroil Corporation, the only female oil operator in California's oil industry.
Text on negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 1298. [typed:] Miss Leah Gurrer; Mrs. M. M. Humphries [handwritten:] Ameroil Corporation [stamped:] July 31 1935
Handwritten on slips of paper: Mrs. M. M. Humphries; Miss Leah Currer.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7755
ark:/21198/zz002dfh88
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Oil industries--California
Brides--California--Los Angeles County
Weddings--California--Los Angeles County
Humphries, M. M
Currer, Leah (Leah Alice), 1910-1991
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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