Cartoon, showing Rand and floating rigs, 1959

Channel Islands

News Clipping, Santa Barbara Daily News, 18 Oct 1921, on oil development on San Miguel

Maps of islands in Santa Barbara channel

Geologic map of Santa Cruz Island by William W. Rand, 1931

College Course Notes, ca. 1925

Correspondence (early, pre-Submarex, etc., as well as personal), 1940s-1950s, n.d.

Designation of Beneficiary, 1966

Dissertation (includes original photos, maps, research files), ca. 1933

Estate of Annie May Hempstead Rand, ca. 1960-1961

Field Survey Notes, 1920s

Finances, ca. 1964

Lab Notes (notebook), ca. 1933

Organizations

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section

American Institute of Professional Geologists

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

National Academy of Engineering - Committee on Ocean Engineering

Science and Engineering Council of Santa Barbara - Technical Services Directory, 1966

United Nations (material re oceanography and the ocean)

U.S. Navy (includes material on Navy's role in exploitation of the ocean and military uses of the ocean), 1967-1968

Publications by Rand

Drilling from Floating Vessels Now Economically Carried Out Off California Coast, Journal of Petroleum Technology 11, 9 (Sept. 1959): 35-36

Ventura Basin, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 35, 2 (Feb. 1951), 231-240

Resumes - William Rand and Tom Crawford

Talk by Rand - Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Oil Exploration, ca. 1957

Tax Returns - William W. and Gertrude S. Rand

Travel - South America, 1957

Arrangement/Organization of Records [lists of categories]

Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws (Submar and Marex), 1953

Correspondence (includes material re drilling from ship-mounted rigs), ca. 1954

Correspondence

General, ca. 1940s-1960

Gaviota (includes discussion of agreements for use of Gaviota and Goleta piers), 1957-1958

Goleta (includes discussion of agreements for use of Goleta and Gaviota piers), 1956-1957

Port Hueneme (includes discussion of off-shore oil leases and transporting of oil drilling equipment and supplies), 1956

Santa Barbara (includes list of oil companies engaged in marine exploration in the Santa Barbara Channel area), 1957

Directional Engineering Co. [DECO]

Correspondence, ca. 1957-1961

Minutes and by-laws, ca. 1954-1955

Macready Oriented Cores, Inc. - Correspondence, 1957-1960

Scientia Corp (includes bylaws, minutes, correspondence, memos, articles, biographical information on Scientia members), ca. early 1960s

State Tideland Leasing Law [mud and water damage]

California State Lands Commission. On petroleum minerals, 3 Feb 1958.

Statement of recommended policy.

Correspondence, statements re leasing, pollution, etc.

"Submarex Corporation" - historical overview

Vessels (includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, some information on operations and operating costs, logs and inventories)

General

Drawings (showing oil rigs) [water damage]

America

La Busca

Caldrill 1

La Ciencia

Decatur

Exploit

Frances Ann

Nautilus, ca. 1957

Ranger

Rincon

Sand Dab V (aka Ceylon)

Surprise

Western Explorer

Vessel Sales Correspondence, 1960

Western Offshore Drilling and Exploration Co.

Miscellany

Bank Balances, 1966

Combined Balance Sheets and Financial Statements, ca. 1957-1958

Consolidated Rand Corporations - Financial Statement, 1957

Cost Analysis Forms, ca. 1957, 1959

Directional Engineering Company (DECO) - Financial Statements and Tax Returns, 1956-1963

Insurance (policies and correspondence), ca. 1954-1964

Macready Oriented Cores, Inc. - Financial Statement, 1961

Mardril, Inc.

Financial Statements and Tax Return, 1955-1963

Sale, 1966

Statements, bills paid, ca. 1962-1963

Marex, Inc.

Financial Statements and Tax Returns, 1955-1963

Statements and Remittances, Western Gulf Oil Co., 1956-1957

Marine Equipment Rentals

Offshore Constructors (possible merger with Rand), 1957-1958

Rexmar, Inc. - Financial Statements and Tax Returns, 1957-1966

Submar, Inc.

Financial Statements and Tax Returns, 1955-1963

Statements, bills paid, ca. 1964-1965

Submarex Corp.

Corporation Expense Summaries, 1957-1960

Financial Statements and Tax Returns, 1955-1964

Sale to Pike Corp. of America, 1966

Coring Devices - Patents (not Rand's), ca. 1945-1949

Directional Engineering Co. [DECO] - including DECO Model 70 and DECO Model 90

Drilling Equipment - Patents [not Rand's], 1960

Engineer's Field Transit Book [records/notes of Rand's experiments/inventions from 1950 (27 pages), ca. 1955

Macready, George A. - Patents, ca. 1920s-1950s

Offshore Oil Drilling (not Rand's)

Subaqueous Drilling Apparatus, 1964-1966

Submarine Drilling Apparatus - Patent Application (includes drawings), ca. 1955-1956

Underwater Drilling Device (Rand's), n.d.

Miscellany (some Rand's), n.d.

Inland Boatmen's Union (IBU), 1956

Marine Firemen's Union, 1956

Memos to Employees (from Rand), ca. 1956

National Labor Relations Board

Termination case, 1956-1957

Union representation case, 1956-1958

Offshore Constructors, Inc. - Agreement, 1959

Piledrivers Local Union Bi, 2375, 1956-1957

Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP), ca. 1956-1957

Submarex (and affiliated companies) - Health and Welfare Program, n.d.

United Mine Workers of America (UMW), 1956

Alaska Project, 1964

Atlantic Refining Company, 1964

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

General, 1963

National Marine Consultants Division of Interstate Electronics Corporation contract (incl. correspondence between Charles Tucker and Tom Crawford, on political topics), 1964-1965

Sea Space, Oct. n.y.

Trips (Tom Crawford - Santa Cruz Basin Site, Farallon Site), 1960

B.O.C. of Australia Limited, 1964-1965

Bendix Corporation, 1965

California Off-Shore Exploration Work, 1954

Deep Sea Drilling Project (Scripps)

Deep Sea Drilling Project activities Jun-Sep 1966

Abstract, selection procedures for subcontractors, and related papers, ca. 1967

Esso (France), 1958

Freeport Sulphur Company (New Orleans, LA), 1966

General Motors (correspondence re ocean drilling, including map), 1961-1962

General Petroleum Corp., 1953-1954

Global Marine Exploration Company, ca. 1959

Hawaii, 1965

Hilo Breakwater Job (Hawaii), 1965

Homyer, L. K. - "A Research Programme to Determine the Practicality of a Proposed Method of Drilling and Working Oil and Gas Wells in Ocean Beds Five Hundred Feet Below the Surface of the Sea" (report), 1958

Hughes Aircraft Company, 1965

Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1953-1958

Israeli Project, 1964

Lake Erie Project (water damage), 1957-1959

McDonald Contractors, Inc. (San Diego) - drilling core samples, 1958

Mohole, 1960-1961

National Marine Consultants, Inc., n.d.

Nissho California Corp. (Asia), 1957

Ocean Science and Engineering, Inc., 1965

Opple, Kenneth, 1957

Persian Gulf Project, 1958

Phillips-Pauley, 1956-1959

PneumoDynamics Corporation, 1960-1964

Richfield - Mobil, 1964

Richfield Oil Corporation, 1952-1964

Shell Oil Company, 1964-1965

Signal Oil & Gas Company, 1954

South America (Venezuela), 1957

Standard Oil Company (including Carpinteria and California coast), 1953-1964

Standard-Humble Alaska Project (including correspondence from Eddie Deal and Lee Gardner about the project), 1965

Sumitomo Shoji New York, Inc. (Japan), 1962-1963

Texaco, Inc., 1958-1963

The Texas Company, n.d.

Tidewater Oil Company, 1956-1958

Tokyo Tsusho Kaisha Ltd. (Japan) [water damage], 1958-1965

Trinidad, 1957

Union-Standard Project (Oregon and Washington), 1963

US Coast and Geodetic Survey [water damage], 1963-1965

Venezuela, 1958

Wandtke, Gus, 1956-1957

Western Gulf Oil Company, 1954-1955

Western Offshore Drilling Co., 1966

California Oil Firms - Foust's Sales and Service Directory, 34th edition, 1963

Drilling and Drilling Equipment

Engines

Floating Rigs

Lunar and Planetary Research

Marine Equipment and Supplies

Mohole

Mud

Navigational Equipment

Oceanographic Equipment

Oceanography

Offshore Drilling

General (includes some articles on Santa Barbara Channel)

Howe, Richard - "Evolution of Offshore Mobile Drilling Units," API Paper

Offshore (complete issues), 1957-1958

Radar

Vessels

Bollay, William - "Analysis of a Spherical Shell under External Pressure," 1963

California, late 1940s, early 1950s (mainly re coring equipment)

California Oil Fields

Core Hole Locations

Core Orientation Field Notes (George A. Macready), 1953-1954

Core Orientation Reports (George A. Macready), 1933-1950

Core Orientation Reports (George A. Macready), 1951-1955

Core Positions (M.V. Surprise)

Deepwater Jetting Device

Drilling Equipment

Equipment

Geology

Geophysical Prospecting (includes field notes and reports, mainly California, Florida, and Alabama material) [water damage], 1920s-1950s

Marine Equipment

Off-Shore Sampling - Committee meeting minutes, 1951-1953

Offshore Sampling Operation Reports - M/V Submarex, 1952

Radar (Raytheon)

Santa Barbara - Marine Seismograph Survey, 1948

Santa Barbara - Offshore Exploration [water damage], 1940s

Santa Barbara/Ventura/Los Angeles (mainly reports and maps), ca. 1930s

Submarine Coring Reports - M/V Submarex, 1952

Towers

Anacapa Island - Aerial views, 1929

B/w prints

Slide [of Rand?]

Film - 16mm color (small roll) - deck of unidentified ship

Daily Drilling Reports, 1956-1958 (boxed)

Drawings, diagrams, blueprints (vessels, drilling equipment) (boxed)

Drawings and Maps (2 folders, map cabinet/drawer)

Charts of Santa Barbara Channel

Drilling equipment

Map - Pt. Buchon

Maps - Source data indices of hole sites off Long Beach