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. This image is part of image 7755. Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Humphries became the president of Ameroil Corporation, the only female oil operator in California's oil industry. Portrait photograph of M. M. Humphries. This photograph appears in "Woman Drilling in Wildcat Field," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jul 1935: A19. Copy photo, original photograph appears to be from the 1920s. Handwritten on paper slip: Mrs. M. M. Humphires; Miss Leah Gurrer Text on negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 1298. [typed:] Miss Leah Gurrer; Mrs. M. M. Humphries [handwritten:] Ameroil Corporation [stamped:] July 31 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7756 ark:/21198/zz002dfh9s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Oil industries--California Humphries, M. M
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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