Pinal Dome Oil Company records, 1893-1926

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Summary

Creators:
Pinal Dome Oil Company
Abstract:
The Pinal Oil Company originated in Santa Maria, California, ca. 1901; the original nine directors, constituting the bulk of the stockholders, were: E.W. Clark, J.W. Atkinson (vice president), Marks Fleisher (president), Sam Fleisher, D.D. Barnard, C.E. Reed, A.H. McKay, Pat Moore, and James F. Goodwin (secretary). The company later merged with Dome Oil Company (ca. 1911) to form the Pinal Dome Oil Company and was bought by Union Oil ca. July 1917. The collection consists primarily of business correspondence and financial records but also contains blueprints and maps, inventories, journals, transcripts of lawsuits, and well drilling reports.
Extent:
55.0 Linear Feet (110 boxes and 9 oversize boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pinal Dome Oil Company records (Collection Number 220). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists primarily of business correspondence and financial records but also contains blueprints and maps, inventories, journals, transcripts of lawsuits, and well drilling reports.

Biographical / historical:

The Pinal Oil Company originated in Santa Maria, California, ca. 1901; the original nine directors, constituting the bulk of the stockholders, were: E.W. Clark, J.W. Atkinson (vice president), Marks Fleisher (president), Sam Fleisher, D.D. Barnard, C.E. Reed, A.H. McKay, Pat Moore, and James F. Goodwin (secretary). The company later merged with Dome Oil Company (ca. 1911) to form the Pinal Dome Oil Company and was bought by Union Oil ca. July 1917.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Guy L. Goodwin, 1942. Additions in March and April 1991.
Processing information:

Processed by Brandon Barton and Simon Elliott, December 2010.

Processing of the Pinal Dome Oil Company records was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The UCLA Library Special Collections was awarded a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from 2010-2012, "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," in collaboration with eight additional special collections and archival repositories throughout the state and the California Digital Library (CDL). Grant objectives included processing of over 33 hidden collections related to the state's environment and environmental history. The collections document an array of important sub-topics such as irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use, activism, and research. Together they form a multifaceted picture of the natural world and the way it was probed, altered, exploited and protected in California over the twentieth century. Finding aids are made available through the Online Archive of California (OAC).

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Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. Blueprints and Maps (Includes blueprints and plans for buildings, gasoline storage facilities, and equipment and maps of Santa Maria Fields and other oil production sites)
  2. Company History (Documents related to history of Pinal Dome Oil Company)
  3. Correspondence (Comprised of business correspondence and personal correspondence between Pinal Oil, Dome Oil, and Pinal Dome Oil and their respective allies and subsidiaries)
  4. Financial Records and Reports (Includes account books, ledgers, stock certificates, payrolls, and tax documents of Pinal Dome Oil Company and its subsidiaries)
  5. Inventories and Tour Reports (Consists of driller's tour reports, well reports, and inventories of refineries and production)
  6. Legal Documents (Abstracts of title, by-laws, articles of incorporation, and indentures belonging to Pinal Dome Oil Company and its allies and subsidiaries)

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pinal Dome Oil Company records (Collection Number 220). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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