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Title: Ernest E. Pyles on the telephone, Los Angeles, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 16, 1939
1939-01-16
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Three-Point Plan for Oil Producer," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1939: 9.
Ernest E. Pyles looks into the camera lens while speaking on the telephone.
Pyles, chairman of Hancock Oil Co., discusses his goals to bring the state of California's crude oil production down to 600,000 barrels a day.
Text from newspaper caption: Ernest E. Pyles
Text from negative sleeve: 15302 - Ernest E. Pyles Hancock Oil Co. in United Landowners Assoc. oil conservation work 1-10-39 [stamped:] Jan 16 1939
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14726
ark:/21198/zz002j8cbs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Desks
Telephones
Hancock Oil Company
Pyles, Ernest Edward, 1895-1963
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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