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. Alma Furman stands outside next to a table with the model oil derrick that stands twice her height. Photograph appears with the article, "Model of Oil Derrick Going to Texas Exhibit," Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb 1936: 6. Elmer Calkins has pursued electrical wiring as a personal hobby for several years now, and decided to create a one-inch to one-foot scale model of an oil derrick, completely wired and with working machinery and parts, which the State of Texas has asked to borrow for their Centennial celebration of the Alamo in San Antonio. Text from negative sleeve: 3725 - 2/19/36 Alma Furman of Whittier. Inspects model oil well made by Elmer Calkins of Whittier. 2/13/36 Text from newspaper caption: Elmer Calkins always wanted personally to wire and light an oil derrick. So he built a model and did just that thing. The model is so perfect, incidentally, that officials of the Texas State Centennial requested that it be placed on exhibit at the fair there. Alma Furman, Whittier College co-ed, is shown with the model. She said it looked all right to her.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12804 ark:/21198/zz002hmw61
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Building models Oil well drilling rigs--California Furman, Alma
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