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. Photograph appears with the article, "City Ready For Oil Men," Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov 1935: 28. The five-day session of the leaders of the oil industry will be devoted mostly to topics of a technical nature and particularly their field but there will also be an extensive entertainment program. The three women pose with the drilling rig. Text from negative sleeve: 4075 - L t R Dixie Miller Virginia Andrews Elizabeth Wilkes Lizetta Buchterkirchen Alice Brachenbury at A.P.I. Convention at Biltmore Hotel 11-9-35 [stamped:] Dec 20 1935 Text from newspaper caption: 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. Left to right, Dixie Miller, Virginia Andrews and Elizabeth Wilkes. Handwritten on negative: LtR- Dixie Miller - Virginia Andrews Elizabeth Wilkes - 11-9-35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13092 ark:/21198/zz002hn748
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lobbies--California--Los Angeles Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Miller, Dixie Wilkes, Elizabeth American Petroleum Institute Andrews, Virginia
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