Dixie Miller, Virginia Andrews, Elizabeth Wilkes, Lezetta Buchterkirchen, and Alice Brakenbury with an oil rig in the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935
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. The women gather around the lobby's oil well drilling rig pointing at a sign beside the rig that lists a detailed schedule of the committee meetings of the American Petroleum Institute. Just to make them feel at home, a thirty-eight-foot oil derrick has been erected in the lobby of the Biltmore for the 3000 delegates to the sixteenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, which will continue for five days. Similar photograph appears with the article, "City Ready For Oil Men," Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov 1935: 28. Handwritten on negative: LtR- Dixie Miller - Virginia Andrews Elizabeth Wilkes - Lizetta Buchterkirchen Alice Braekenburg 11-9-35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13091 ark:/21198/zz002hn73r
Language
English
Subject
Signs (Notices) Lobbies--California--Los Angeles Timetables Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Buchterkirchen, Lezetta, 1890-1987 Brakenbury, Alice, b. 1905 Wilkes, Elizabeth American Petroleum Institute Andrews, Virginia Miller, Dixie
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