Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map Collection: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Suzanne Oatey.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map
Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1880-1954
Bulk dates: 1905-1935
Collection Number: photCL 311
Creator:
Arnold, Ralph,
1875-1961
Extent:
Approximately 16,000 photographs in 97 boxes: 64 photograph albums, lantern
slides, glass and film negatives + 346 rolled maps.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: A collection of photographs and maps compiled by American
geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his
pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United
States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954, with the bulk of materials from
1905-1935.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map Collection, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Ralph Arnold, 1955-1961.
Custodial History
These materials were originally received with the Ralph Arnold papers (mssArnold
papers) and were transferred to the Photo Archives Sept. 7, 1974.
In 2018, an additional 382 loose photograph album pages were transferred from Box
216 of the Ralph Arnold papers and reunited with the corresponding photograph
albums in this collection.
Biographical Note
American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961) was born in
Marshalltown, Iowa, on April 14, 1875. His father, Delos Arnold (1830-1909), was a
lawyer and Iowa state senator who became interested in the study of fossils after
the discovery of crinoids fossils in LeGrand, Iowa. The Arnolds moved to Pasadena,
California in 1886, and Ralph attended Pasadena High School and Throop Polytechnic
School (now the California Institute of Technology) before receiving a B.A. in
geology and mining from Stanford University in 1899. He also completed an M.A.
(1900) and Ph.D. (1902) in geology and paleontology at Stanford. In 1899, Arnold
married Frankie Winninette Stokes, the daughter of Frank and Oraletta Stokes, who
had settled in South Pasadena in the 1880s. Ralph and Winninette Arnold had two
daughters, Winninette (Noyes) and Elizabeth "Betty" (McKee), and they lived in a
house at 1205 Wilson Avenue, South Pasadena (later San Marino).
Arnold worked
for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1900 to 1909, and from 1903-1909
published a variety of paleontological articles. He was active in petroleum surveys
throughout the United States, and organized the Petroleum Branch of the U.S. Bureau
of Mines. In 1910, he left the USGS and spent 1911-1916 leading a team in a landmark
survey of petroleum resources in Trinidad and Venezuela, about which he published
The First Big Oil Hunt: Venezuela, 1911-1916
(1960).
After his successful South American explorations, Arnold
conducted independent petroleum and mineral explorations from Canada to Mexico,
including valuable surveys in Alaska, Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Montana, Texas and Washington.
In the 1920s Arnold’s interests turned to
politics, and he was active in the Herbert Hoover presidential campaign. He remained
committed to the California Academy of Sciences, the Cooper Ornithological Society,
and the Sierra Club, among other organizations. Arnold died in Santa Barbara,
California, in 1961.
Scope and Content
This collection centers on 64 photograph albums compiled by Ralph Arnold that span 50
years of his life and work. The albums are arranged into subgroups of nine series
based on Arnold's original schema. They are chiefly in chronological order.
Photographs are accompanied by Arnold’s typed captions identifying geological
features; oil and mining activities; technical data; and dates and locations, i.e.
often an oil or mining “district” or “field,” such as “Sunset Field” (California).
The first series of albums begins in 1904 and the ninth (and last) series ends in
1954. (See “Arrangement” for dates and locations for each series of albums.) Subject
matter includes geological and topographical features such as rock formations,
faults and schisms, mountain structure, geothermal activity, and open land with
potential drilling or mining spots. Earthquake faults are seen and described in many
of Arnold's California investigations. There are also views of small and large-scale
oil operations (by individuals and by organized companies); details of oil flow and
reservoirs; asphalt; drilling equipment; workers and fields of oil wells. Arnold’s
work took him all over the Western United States, particularly California oil
fields, but also Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Alaska and other states. From 1911-1916 he
was primarily in South America, and in the 1920s-1940s, mostly in the U.S., Canada
and Mexico. The majority of photographs were taken by Arnold, with some by other
geologists, whom Arnold credits.
Mining operations are the focus of some albums, showing investigations for tin, gold
and other minerals; mines and shaft openings; piles of ore; and various methods of
processing, all with detailed descriptions. Arnold also often photographed people:
colleagues and business associates, oil lease owners on their properties; workers
(particularly Black and Asian workers in Venezuela); and friends and family.
Personal photographs are throughout the album, such as of his wife, Winninette, and
their two daughters; Stokes family members (Winninette’s family) in South Pasadena;
and alumni of Pasadena High School and Stanford University. Arnold was an avid
gardener and the albums contain detail views of cactus and tropical plants, and
scenes of Arnold collecting wild orchids in Trinidad, Venezuela and Mexico.
Following the photograph albums (Series 1-9), are lantern slides (Series 10). The 193
slides were made from Arnold’s photographs and were used by Arnold to accompany
lectures 1914-1916. Most of the slides are grouped into themes such as Production,
Technology, and Structure, and have handwritten captions. The Ralph Arnold papers,
Box 132 (mssArnold) contain lectures he gave at Harvard University and Massachusetts
School of Technology in 1915, and some say “with lantern slides,” though it is
unclear which slides were used for which lectures.
Series 11 is a group of glass negatives, approximately 1902 to 1904, which are mostly
personal photographs made shortly after Ralph and Winninette Arnold were married.
They are primarily of Arnold and Stokes family members and houses, and document
travels to visit family and various universities. It is worth noting that Arnold was
already interested in photography at this early date, using a large glass plate
camera for his personal photographs.
Series 12 is a box of handwritten file cards with names of oil companies, arranged by
district, in California. Some have names of people or numerical notations.
The maps and charts (Series 13) that belonged to Arnold made up part of the working
tools of an early-20th century geologist and petroleum/mining engineer. The maps
cover roughly the same geographical territory as the photograph albums, and most
date from 1910s-1940s. They include machine-printed U.S.G.S. survey and contour
maps, but also hand-drawn maps and charts of soil composition; layouts of mines;
maps of oil fields and wells (with tracts and owner’s names). They are useful for
geographical research, as well as containing information on California ranchos and
landowners, oil company-owned land, and land leased or owned by individuals. Some
are in fragile condition and require special handling and/or curatorial approval.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
Arrangement
- The 64 photograph albums are arranged into 9 series based on Arnold's original
schema:
- Series 1. Vols. 1-6. United States, 1904-1911
- Series 2. Vols. 1-5. Curacao, Grenada, Trinidad, and Venezuela,
1912-1918
- Series 3. Vols. 1-18. United States, Mexico, Trinidad, and Venezuela,
1910-1916
- Series 4. Vols. 1-12. United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico,
Panama, and Venezuela, 1901-1927
- Series 5. Vol. 1. "Technical" (primarily California), 1913-1914
- Series 6. Vol. 1. Harold Hannibal photographs, Pacific Coast and New
Mexico, 1909-1915
- Series 7. Vols. 1-3. "Graphite" (mining, primarily Texas),
1916-1919
- Series 8. Vols. 1-9. United States, Canada, and Mexico,
1923-1935
- Series 9. Vols. 1-9. United States, Canada, and Mexico,
1936-1954
- Other materials are arranged into Series 10-13:
- Series 10. Lantern slides, approximately 1905-1915
- Series 11. Glass negatives, 1902-1904
- Series 12. Card file of oil companies in California
- Series 13. Maps and charts (rolled), 1880-1948
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Arnold, Ralph,
1875-1961
Crocker, William H. --
Photographs
Hoover, Theodore J.
(Theodore Jesse), 1871-1955 -- Photographs
Shackleton, Ernest
Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Photographs
Geological Survey
(U.S.)
Faults (Geology)-- California --
Photographs
Geology -- United States --
Maps
Mines and mineral resources -- Canada --
Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- Cuba --
Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico --
Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- South
America -- Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- West
(U.S.) -- Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- Canada --
Photographs
Mining engineers -- West
(U.S.)
Oil fields -- Photographs
Oil wells -- Photographs
Orchids -- Mexico
Orchids -- Trinidad and Tobago
Orchids -- Venezuela
Petroleum -- Geology -- California --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- Canada --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- Cuba --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- Mexico --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- South America --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- United States --
Photographs
Petroleum -- Geology -- Venezuela --
Photographs
Petroleum geologists --
Photographs
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum workers --
Photographs
Prospecting
Surveying
Unskilled labor -- Venezuela --
Photographs
California --
Photographs
Mexico --
Photographs
Trinidad and Tobago --
Photographs
Venezuela --
Photographs
West (U.S.) --
Photographs
Forms/Genres
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Film negatives.
Glass negatives.
Lantern slides.
Maps.
Topographic maps.
Series 1. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-6. United States, 1904-1911
Physical Description:
6 photograph albums
Scope and Content Note
Each album in this series has a table of contents titled "Ralph Arnold Photo
Book" and photographs are numbered sequentially through six volumes. The
primary subject is California oil exploration during the years Arnold worked
for the U.S. Geological Survey. Typed captions are on facing pages, opposite
the photographs.
Box 1
Ser. 1/ Volume 1. Arizona, California, New Mexico, and
Washington, 1904-1905
Physical description: 210 photographs. A few loose notes found inside
album.
Arizona
Overviews of the Grand Canyon and surrounding area.
California
Primarily views and descriptions of topography and vegetation
at the coast and inland, with some photographs of oil wells in
Los Angeles and Fresno counties. Includes beaches, caverns; sand
dunes; fossils from Santa Monica Canyon; Eagle Rock's namesake
boulder; oil wells and oil production. Los Angeles oil district
views include concretions in Miocene sandstone along Sunset
Blvd. near Echo Lake; oil-bearing sandstone; bird's-eye-views of
oil wells among houses in city. [See similar views in Ser. 1,
Vol. 5 (Box 5)].
Companies:
Central Oil Co.; Home Oil Co.; Murphy Oil Co. in Whittier oil
district.
Locations:
Coalinga-McKittrick field; Eagle Rock; Kern County; La Brea
Canyon district; La Jolla; Los Angeles; Monterey County; Olinda
district; Pacific Beach; Pigeon Point; Puente Hills district;
San Diego County; San Luis Obispo County; San Mateo County;
Santa Cruz; Santa Monica Mountains; Temescal Canyon; Topanga
Canyon; Whittier District.
Others of
note:
No. 147: Cave petroglyphs at Canary Spring. No.
124: Mission San Miguel Arcangel. No. 129: Mission San Antonio
de Padua. No. 165: Horse and buggy on empty beach at Morro Rock.
No. 213, 219: Early houses on bluffs at La Jolla.
New Mexico
Three photographs of desert topography.
Washington
Clallum County and Lewis County. Views of mountain and
coastline scenery, topography.
PDF of Album Series 1, Vol.
1
Additional collection guides
Box 2
Ser. 1/ Volume 2. Arizona and California, 1905-1906
Physical description: 192 photographs. "Ralph Arnold, Oct. 26, 1903" is
written inside front cover but photographs date from 1905-1906. Some
loose sheets of typed captions found inside album.
Arizona
Overviews of the Grand Canyon.
California
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation, ranches,
oil wells and oil production. Views around Los Angeles show oil
wells; Eagle Rock boulder and surrounding land; La Brea Rancho
oil wells, animal bones and lagoon; Salt Lake oil field and
lagoon. Other views include "old Indian cistern" in Antelope
Valley; basalt millstone from Mission San Antonio de Padua;
earthquake fault cracks from Earthquake of 1906 around Portola
Valley, near Stanford University and in Santa Maria.
Companies: Bardsdale Oil Co.;
Central Oil Co.; Gilmore Oil Co.; Graciosa Oil Co.; Tapo Oil
Co.; Western Union Oil Co.
Locations: Avenal Valley; Coalinga-McKittrick field;
Del Mar; Eagle Rock; El Temblor Ranch; Fillmore; La Jolla; Los
Angeles; Monterey County; Newhall; Orcutt; Pico Canyon; San Luis
Obispo County; Santa Barbara; Santa Clara Valley field; Santa
Maria field; Santa Paula; Simi Valley; Torrey Canyon field;
Ventura.
Others of note: No.
339: "Characteristic ranch deserted for lack of water, Kettleman
Plains…" No. 449: "Hartnell No. 1 [well], the greatest producer
in California..." Portraits of residents A. B. McRae and family
in front of house in Casmalia, with geologists Robert Anderson
and John Blakeman. Also Mrs. N. S. Stewart and children,
Ranchita Canyon.
Box 3
Ser. 1/ Volume 3. California and Colorado, 1906
Physical description: 194 photographs. Some loose sheets of typed
captions found inside album.
California
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation of the
coast and inland; earthquake faults and fissures in the land;
mines and mining company buildings; and many views of oil wells
and oil production. Includes oil tanks and pump houses; asphalt
mines; tar springs on the beach; fossils collected by geologist
"Yates"; Fugler's Point asphalt mine; Mission La Purisima
Concepcion; Mission Santa Ines.
Companies: Los Alamos Oil and Development Co.;
Pennsylvania Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.; Union Oil Co.
Locations: Carpinteria; Coalinga
District; Fresno County; Orcutt oil field; Santa Barbara County;
Santa Maria oil field; Sisquoc; Summerland; Zaca Canyon.
Others of note: No. 529-532:
Panoramic view of oil wells along the coast at Summerland, as
seen from the end of the Southern Pacific Railroad wharf.
Portraits of residents: C. H. Mitchell family; Jim Goodchild
family; John Libeu family (of Lompoc); families of Adolph,
Charles, and Hugo Kreyenhagen on porch of house.
Colorado
One photograph: Grand River and canyon, Glenwood Springs (No.
542).
Box 4
Ser. 1/ Volume 4. California,
1907-1908
Physical description: 193 photographs. Some loose sheets of typed
captions titled "Lantern slides" found inside album.
Primarily views and descriptions of topography and vegetation
throughout open land travelled by horseback, with some excellent
views of oil wells and oil production. Views depict wells and
operations; drilling rigs; "earthen oil reservoirs"; tar
springs; camps of the U.S.G.S. survey team; Stone Canyon coal
mine; earthquake rift at Palo Prieto Pass. Many detailed
descriptions of geological features.
Companies: Associated Oil Co.; Kern Trading and Oil
Co.; Standard Oil Co.
Locations:
Agua Media Creek district; Antelope Valley; Bitterwater
District; Carnaris Spring; Carrizo Plain; Coalinga oil field;
Devils Den District; Fresno County; Kern County;
McKittrick-Sunset District; Midway District; Monterey County;
Palo Prieto Pass; San Luis Obispo County; Stone Canyon; Sunset
District; Temblor District.
Others of
note:
No. 683: Geologists next to "gem-bearing
schist." No. 816, 817: H.R. Johnson and Ralph Arnold in field
clothes at McKittrick.
Box 5
Ser. 1/ Volume 5. California,
1908-1910 + a few dated 1900
Physical description: 197 photographs. Includes a set of photographs
dated "about 1900" of oil wells at Summerland. 14 loose photographs
found inside album showing: a massive oil reservoir under construction
near San Luis Obispo, Sept. 6, 1910; and Lakeview oil flow (Midway
District).
Views and descriptions of topography and dense oil fields,
particularly along the Southern California coast. Also gypsum
workings; oil wells and equipment; the "famous Lakeview gusher"
at Midway. Includes views of Summerland oil field, Santa
Barbara, approximately 1900, showing Treadwell Wharf under
construction and coastline full of oil wells. Also several 1908
views of the Santa Barbara coastline with wharves and oil wells.
Companies: Central Oil Co.;
Giant Oil Co.; Los Alamos Petroleum Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.;
Union Oil Co.; Western Union Oil Co.
Locations: Carrizo Plain; Coalinga District; Devils
Den District; Fresno County; Hopper Canyon; Kern River District;
La Graciosa Hills; Los Angeles County; Maricopa oil field;
McKittrick District; Midway District; Oil City (Coalinga);
Puente Hills District (vicinity of Whittier); San Luis Obispo
County; Santa Barbara County; Sespe Canyon; Summerland oil
field; Sunset District; Temblor District; Torrey Canyon; Ventura
County.
Others of note: No. 860,
861: Homer Hamlin, Los Angeles City Engineer, standing next to
shale along roadside, Los Angeles. Pg. 211: Workers at Maricopa
train depot with oil wells in background. Pgs. 184-211: Group of
photographs titled "Arnold Trip, July 26-28, 1910" showing oil
production at Cat Canyon oil field. Arnold is seen standing at
reservoir of "famous Palmer Well #2" (pg. 190).
Box 6
Ser. 1/ Volume 6. Western United States and Illinois, 1906-1911
Physical description: 154 photographs. All appear to be by photographers
other than Arnold.
Arizona
Overviews of Grand Canyon.
California
Views of oil fields and oil production in Kern County and
Coalinga, showing Standard Oil Co. wells at Coalinga and members
of the American Mining Congress (including president Ernest R.
Buckley) touring Coalinga. Other views show the aftermath of the
Earthquake of 1906, such as earthquake faults and fissures in
Saratoga and vicinity; city destruction in San Francisco and
Palo Alto; and damage to buildings at Stanford University.
Locations: Berkeley; Coalinga;
Kern River field; Palo Alto; San Francisco; Saratoga; Taft.
Illinois
Views in Stoy of oil fields and busy "boom town" scenes with
many saloons. Photographs by Harold Hannibal.
Oregon
Coastal topography at Cape Blanco and Coos Bay. One view of
whale jawbone washed up on beach.
Utah
Vernal Valley scenery [photographs poor quality].
Series 2. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-5. Curacao, Grenada, Trinidad,
and Venezuela, 1912-1918
Physical Description:
5 photograph albums
Scope and Content Note
This series covers the years that Arnold and a team of geologists conducted
extensive oil explorations in the northern part of Venezuela, South America,
and the southern part of Trinidad, British West Indies. Many of these
photographs were later published in a book co-written by Arnold, George A.
Macready and Thomas W. Barrington: "The First Big Oil Hunt: Venezuela -
1911-1916" (New York: Vantage Press), 1960.
Each album in this series
has a "V" on the spine, presumably for "Venezuela."
Box 7
Ser. 2/ Volume 1. Curacao, Trinidad, and Venezuela, 1912-1913
Physical description: 322 photographs. Some loose notes and typed
captions found inside album.
Curacao and Trinidad
(Small number of photographs, mostly city views.)
Venezuela
Includes Merida; Caracas; Distrito Federal; Lara; Anzoategui;
Naricual coal mines; Carabobo; Sucre; Monagas. Expedition
photographs primarily show topography and vegetation; oil and
gas seepages; coal mines; dam sites; bridges; asphalt deposits;
geologists in the field and at camp; and local workers. There
are also portraits of residents and their houses; laborers;
village street scenes; churches; a bullfight; and steamships.
Others of note: No. 66:
"Poor people in front of our hotel at Coro, during famine." No.
218: Locomotive of Guanoco and La Brea Railroad.
Photographs stamped on back "Caribbean Petroleum Co." and some
are credited to George G. Macready, R. A. Conkling, C. J.
Peterson, and Floyd C. Merritt.
Box 8
Ser. 2/ Volume 2. Grenada and Venezuela, 1912-1913
Physical description: 278 photographs. 12 pages were removed from the
album by Arnold when he was preparing his 1960 book "The First Big Oil
Hunt: Venezuela - 1911-1916." The loose pages were returned intact for
the most part, but some have photographs and/or captions missing. The
pages are in a folder with the album.
Grenada
(Small number of photographs; mostly coastal town
views)
Venezuela
Includes Mendoza; Valera; Guanoco; Sucre; Monagas; Falcon;
Paraguana; Maracaibo; El Isiro Dam and San Juan River.
Expedition photographs depict topography; jungles; a mud
volcano; pitch cones; laborers working in an asphalt lake; four
views of oil wells at Guanoco; Bramon Estates Co. coffee estate
in Tachir, and scenes of coffee drying and grinding; scientists
in the field and at camp; and wild animal game. There are also
views of residents; huts; market scenes; city buildings; a
funeral procession in Valera; churches; a brick and tile
production plant; and steamships.
Others of note: Headquarters of aphalt operators New
York and Bermudez Co. (no. 583) and Val de Travers Co. (no.
584). No. 600: Valera resident of Dutch descent, Don Juan
[Johaan] Haack, posed with geologists.
Photographs stamped
on back "Caribbean Petroleum Co." and some are credited to
Charles R. Eckes, Bernard Hasbrouck, Jerome B. Burnett, and R.
A. Conkling.
Box 9
Ser. 2/ Volume 3. Grenada, Trinidad, and Venezuela, 1913-1914
Physical description: 312 photographs. Some loose notes and typed
captions found inside album.
Grenada
St. George – Views of harbor and town; female black laborers
shoveling coal brought in by boat.
Trinidad
Oil wells; pump stations; black laborers covered in oil (no.
659); Brighton Hotel and pier.
Venezuela
Includes Zulia, Falcon, Monagas; Guajira peninsula; Maracaibo;
Colon District (Tana Hills, North Branch Cano Grande de Agua
Caliente, others). Expedition photographs depict jungles;
bridges; a dam under construction at Caujarao; a seep cone; hot
springs; oil seepages; extensive scenes of Petroleum Development
Co. oil wells flowing and workers; Silversteam Oilfields well;
black and Indian laborers. There are also views of residents and
street scenes; local boys practicing shooting with bows and
arrows; a crowd at a watering hole; churches; plaza in Maturin;
and Fort San Carlos.
Others of
note:
No. 671-677: "General Lewis Fernando and family
at his home near Castilletes." No. 780: The only photograph of
Arnold in this album. No. 825: A camp site that was "abandoned
when the Motilone Indians drove out the geologists."
Most
photographs are stamped on back "Caribbean Petroleum Co." and
some are credited to H. H. McKee, Charles R. Eckes, H. E. Boyd,
A. F. Dixon, G. Jeffreys, Joslin-Merritt, G. A. Macready.
Box 10
Ser. 2/ Volume 4. Trinidad and Venezuela, 1914-1918
Physical description: 282 photographs. 16 pages were removed from the
album by Arnold when he was preparing his 1960 book "The First Big Oil
Hunt: Venezuela - 1911-1916." The loose pages were returned intact for
the most part, but some have photographs and/or captions missing. The
pages are in a folder with the album.
Trinidad
Includes Brighton; Tabaquite; Fyzabad; Chagonary Point; Devils
Woodyard; Cedros; Parry Lands; Point Fortin. Expedition
photographs show mud cones; mud volcanoes; Trinidad Leaseholds
Ltd. wells and reservoirs; extensive views of Vessigny oil field
showing oil production of Petroleum Development Co.; workers;
pumps, drills and equipment; oil wells on "crown lands";
Trinidad Central Oil Fields Ltd.; Trinidad Oil Leases, Ltd.;
United British Oilfields Ltd.
The back of the volume has
several panoramic views showing the ruins of an asphalt plant
fire in Brighton, February 1917, and of Pitch Lake. There are
also many scenes of black laborers (men and women) at oil sites,
asphalt sites and at a quarry; local residents with a seven-foot
leatherback sea turtle captured on beach.
Some photographs
by George A. Macready, A. H. Gilchreas, F. C. Merritt;
McPherson.
Venezuela
Includes Zulia; Rio del Oro; Mene Grande; Sucre; Guanoco;
Delta of the Orinoco (i.e. Delta Amacuro). Photographs primarily
show geologists and oil workers in group portraits and working
at oil wells and reservoirs; several scenes of the wells and
plant of the New York and Bermudez Co. at Guanoco. Drilling
superintendent John A. ("Jack") Stokes and his wife are seen in
several photographs with oil drillers at Mene Grande (no.
994-1018).
Box 11
Ser. 2/ Volume 5. Trinidad,
1918
Physical description: 25 photographs. (Mostly blank pages.)
Brighton – Oil wells, drilling and active oil flows at Parry
Lands and Brighton oil fields; scenes at Pitch Lake. One view of
an elevated cable tram carrying loads of asphalt to harbor.
Series 3. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-18. United States, Mexico,
Trinidad, and Venezuela, 1910-1916
Physical Description:
18 photograph albums
Box 12
Ser. 3/ Volume 1. California and Mexico, 1910
Physical description: 229 photographs, including a few cyanotypes.
Handwritten index of oil companies and locations at beginning of album.
California
Views and descriptions of topography: visible earthquake
faults, granite, canyons and hills. Also oil fields and oil
production; oil company camps and workers' bunkhouses; ranch
houses such as "White's Camp." Views of the legendary Lakeview
Gusher of 1910, a pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil
Field in Kern County that spewed 378 million gallons of oil in
the largest accidental oil spill in California history.
Companies: California Oilfields,
Ltd.; Central Oil Co.; Coalinga-Kettleman Oil Co.;
Coalinga-Mohawk Oil Co.; Coalinga Peerless Oil Co.; Fulton Oil
Co.; Midway Union Oil Co.; Peerless Oil Co.; Standard Oil Co.;
Turner Oil Co.; Union Oil Co. (operator of first two producing
wells in Cat Canyon); W. K. Oil Co.
Locations: Arroyo Grande oil field; Cat Canyon
field; Eastside Coalinga field; Kern River field; Lonoak oil
district; Los Angeles County; Maricopa; Newhall oil field (and
Towsley Canyon); Panorama Hills; Puente Hills district; San
Emidio district; San Lorenzo River; Sunset oil field; Temblor
Range; Tujunga Canyon; Ventura County.
Others of note: No. 46: Oil spring discovered in a
dry stream bed, Humboldt. No. 64: American Stage Co. stagecoach
loaded with geologists and cargo. No. 89-92: Ralph Arnold and
family members.
Mexico
(5 photographs) No. 37-41: Baja California - lava; sandstone
cliffs; Ralph Arnold and colleagues.
Box 13
Ser. 3/ Volume 2. California and Mexico, 1910-1911
Physical description: 222 photographs. Handwritten index of oil
companies and locations at beginning of album. Some loose notes and
typed captions titled "Lantern Slide Descriptions" found inside album.
California
Views and descriptions of topography; oil production and
equipment; oil company camps and workers' bunkhouses; reservoirs
and storage tanks; water pump stations used by oil refineries.
Companies: Adeline
Consolidated Road Oil Co.; B. A. T. Oil Co.; Central Oil Co.;
Coalinga-Kettleman Oil Co.; Coalinga-Western Oil Co. (St. Elmo
property); Esperanza Consolidated Oil Co.; Eureka Canyon Oil
Co.; Gates City Oil Co.; Kern River Drillers Oil Co.;
Midway-Union Oil Co.; Montebello Oil Co.; Nevada Midway Oil Co.;
Redlands Oil Co.; Sibyl Oil Co.
Locations: Carrizo oil district; Coalinga district;
Elk Hills oil field; Kern River field; Kettleman Hills field;
Los Angeles field; Los Meganos Ranch; Midway field; Puente Hills
district; Santa Maria field; Sulphur Mountain district; Ventura
County; Whittier field.
Others of
note:
No. 270: County water well in the Kettleman
Plain, showing an automobile carrying a water barrel. No. 313:
Derrick Avenue at Coalinga, showing a miles-long row of oil
wells. No. 312, 317, 318: Members of the American Mining
Congress touring sites with J. A. Holmes, Director of the U.S.
Bureau of Mines.
Mexico
(12 photographs) No. 348-359: Desert at Mascarena Ranch,
Sonora.
Box 14
Ser. 3/ Volume 3. California and Mexico, 1911
Physical description: 292 photographs.
California
Beginning of album shows members of a British oil syndicate
travelling with Arnold and Wendell Hammon to various oil and
dredging locations in California. Views include coastline and
beaches; ranches; oil production and dredging operations; a rock
crusher; oil flow; tar seepage; electrical towers used as part
of oil production process; water wells and tanks; oil company
buildings, camps, equipment, and workers' housing.
Companies: Anglo-Californian Oil
Syndicate, Ltd.; Brooks Oil Co.; California Oil Fields Ltd.;
California Oil and Gas Co.; Coalinga-Monterey Oil Co.; De Luxe
Oil Co.; Henderson Oil Co.; January Oil Co.; July Oil Co.; Kern
Trading and Oil Co.; Midway Union Oil Co.; Nevada Petroleum Co.;
Orcutt Oil Co.; Pacific Oil Fields, Ltd.; Palmer Oil Co.;
Republic Oil Co.; Shawmut Oil Co.; Union Oil Co.; Yuba
Construction Co.; Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields; Zier Oil Co.
Locations: Cat Canyon oil
field; Chaffee Canyon; Coalinga field; Hammonton; Lompoc Valley;
Los Angeles oil district; Marysville; Midway district; Natomas;
Packard Ranch and Estate; Santa Maria district; Santa Ynez
Ranch; Summerland district; Sunset oil field; Vallecitos
district.
Others of note: No.
468-469: Bird's-eye-views of town of Coalinga. No. 620: "View on
Fourth Street, Los Angeles, showing one of the oil delivery
wagons running oil [under sidewalk] to a boiler room of the Van
Nuys Hotel." Scenes of Wendell P. Hammon, the “California
Gold-Dredger King" and his home and orchard in Palermo,
California. No. 478, 487: William H. Crocker (1861-1937),
president of Crocker Bank. No. 520: "Mrs. Whittier" [most likely
Joanna E. Whittier (1872-1923), wife of Mericos "Max" Whittier.]
Ralph Arnold appears occasionally, and men identified by
surnames only: Blake, Dahl, Watson, Young, Kimball, Dyer,
Guiberson, Hazeltine, Requa, Find, McCloud, Griffin, Moncur,
Feather, Van Ee, Marshall, Clark.
Mexico
[Second half of album] Views of topography; oil refineries;
asphalt production; tank farms; water pump stations; laborers
and oil company housing for American employees and resident
laborers; villages with thatched-roof huts; wells of Huasteca
Petroleum Co. and Mexican Petroleum Co.
Locations: Cardenas; Casiano; Chijol; Ebano Hill;
Esperanza; Huasteca oil tract; Juan Felipe; Micos; San Geronimo;
San Luis Potosi; Torreon.
Box 15
Ser. 3/ Volume 4. California, Wyoming, Mexico, and Trinidad,
1911
Physical description: 196 photographs. 28 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
California
(3 photographs) Simi Oil Co. wells in Ventura County.
Wyoming
(Small number of photographs) Castle Creek anticline and
Castle Creek Oil Co.; Salt Creek oil field and wells of the
Midwest Oil Co.; Tisdale anticline.
Mexico
Oil production and worker camps; storage tanks; active oil
seepages and springs; tropical vegetation; canals used for water
transportation. Oil fields shown: Cerro Azul; Cerro Viejo;
decimated area of "once famous Dos Bocas Well"; Ebano; Huasteca;
Oja de Brea; Tampico; Zacamixtle.
Companies: American Oil Co.; East Coast Oil Co.
(Southern Pacific Railroad); Huasteca Petroleum Co.; Mexico
Petroleum Co., Ltd.
Trinidad
Beaches and tropical vegetation; oil production and wells;
employee housing; mud volcanoes and craters; Indian and black
laborers (men and women); residents and scenes in villages. A
few scenes in Barbados. Locations include Cedros; Forest
Reserve; San Fernando.
Companies: Guapo Oil Co.; South Naparima Oil Co.;
Trinidad Forest Reserve Oil Co.; Trinidad Lake Oil Co.; Trinidad
Oil Fields Ltd.
Others of note:
No. 855: Oil well with caption "a characteristic Canadian
outfit." No. 801, 871: Ralph and Winninette Arnold in group
photographs. No. 880: Manjak Mine.
Personal
No. 920-979: Ralph and Winninette Arnold sightseeing in
England and Ireland.
Box 16
Ser. 3/ Volume 5. California and Trinidad, 1911
Physical description: 281 photographs. Handwritten index found inside
album.
California
Views and descriptions of topography featuring mountains,
canyons, creeks and discovery of oil springs; oil and water
storage tanks; oil wells and oil production equipment; workers;
"James Shiells lease" of the Montebello Oil Co.; wells of Union
Oil Co. Some unidentified oil fields at back of album.
Locations: Ventura County (Santa
Clara Valley and Piru); Fullerton field (geologist William
Orcutt in one photograph, No. 1198); Midway field.
Trinidad
Photographs begin on pg. 33 with heading: "Trinidad Lake
Petroleum Co., Ltd., Trinidad B. W. I. - To accompany report by
Ralph Arnold, Dec. 20, 1911." Views of oil fields and company
buildings; pitch cones; mud craters; mud cones; oil seepages;
residents; black and Indian laborers and laborer's huts;
road-building; geologists in field; Constabulary headquarters in
Port of Spain; Arnold and others on steamship (No. 1260).
Locations: Brighton; Forest
Reserve; Pitch Lake; Port of Spain; Oropuche; Mud Volcano
Island.
Box 17
Ser. 3/ Volume 6. California, Utah, and Mexico, 1912-1914
Physical description: 299 photographs. Handwritten index of oil
companies and locations at beginning of album. Note and 2 loose
photographs found inside album: views of shale cuts, with writing on
back: "Harbor Boulevard at about Third Street" and "North side of Sixth
St. about 100 feet east of Centre Street." [Los Angeles or Orange
County, California?]
California
Detail views of oil flow and descriptions of rate of flow;
extensive views of oil fields; company buildings; oil workers;
bunkhouses; also topography and vegetation. Some unidentified
oil fields [Los Angeles?] at back of album.
Companies: American Oilfields Co.;
American Petroleum Co.; Arica Oil Co.; Associated Oil Co.;
Bankers Oil Co.; Edmunds Oil Co.; Engineers Oil Co.; Esperanza
Oil Co.; Gillmore Oil Co.; Inca Oil Co.; Kern Four Oil Co.; Kern
Trading and Oil Co.; Maricopa Consolidated Oil Co.; Mexican
Petroleum Co.; Midland Oil Co.; Montebello Oil Co. (leases of
Shiells; Horton; Burson; Calumet; Elkins); Sespe Consolidated
Oil Co.; Sunset Monarch Oil Co.; Union Oil Co.; Universal Oil
Co.; West Shore Oil Co.
Locations: Brea Canyon oil field; Coalinga oil
district; Fillmore; Fullerton field; Kern River field; Lost
Hills district; Midway district; Sespe Canyon; Sunset field;
Ventura County.
Others of note:
No. 1413: Thomas O'Donnell (1870-1945), prominent California oil
pioneer.
Utah
(1 photograph) No. 1501: "Gilsonite vein at Dragon, Utah"
(1913).
Mexico
Baja California - Expedition photographs, including geologists
with pack mules; descriptions of topography and vegetation; Jose
Osuna's ranch and family at La Purisima.
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Box 18
Ser. 3/ Volume 7. California; Mexico; Grenada, Trinidad, and
Venezuela, 1912
Physical description: 301 photographs. Handwritten index of oil
companies and locations at beginning of album. 14 loose pages are in a
folder with the album.
California
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation; oil
production; storage tanks; refinery power plant; details of
machinery.
Companies: Monte
Cristo Oil Co.; Pacific Crude Oil Co.; Petroleum Development
Co.; Wellman Oil Co.; West Shore Oil Co.
Locations: Bixby Ranch (Orange
County); Cebrian Ranch (San Luis Obispo County); Kern River
field; Sunset field; Midway field.
Mexico
Pgs. 18-49: Geologists examining mud volcanoes and hot sulphur
springs in the Colorado River Delta. No. 1640: Arnold looking
into mud volcano. Pgs. 93-113: "Mr. Garfias' Mexican trip, Aug.
1912" and "Mexico International Oil Co." Titles written in index
at front of album; no captions.
Grenada
Pgs. 225-227: Steamships and waterfront at Georgetown.
Trinidad
Pgs. 115-116: views from steamship; pg. 206: oil production at
Brighton.
Venezuela
Mostly topography and vegetation; some oil seepages; laborers;
asphalt lake. Other scenes include Custom House, Spanish fort at
Salinas, villages and residents.
Locations: Delta Del Orinoco [Orinoco River];
Margarita Island; Monagas; Nueva Esparta; Sucre.
Box 19
Ser. 3/ Volume 8. California and New Mexico; Curacao, Grenada,
and Venezuela, 1912-1914
Physical description: 283 photographs. Handwritten index of oil
companies and locations at beginning of album. 32 loose pages are in a
folder with the album.
California
Oil wells and production at Sunset field and Maricopa field.
Includes wells of Maricopa Northern Oil Co. and Maricopa
Consolidated Oil Co. (No. 2146-2159).
New Mexico
Topography, vegetation and oil production views. Includes men
visiting well site and testing oil flow; Dayton Petroleum
Company workers installing well on the Cass-Hammond property;
drilling in desert. Locations: Dayton and Rocky Arroyo.
Others of note: No. 2193-2196:
Marker in desert for proposed well of Southwestern Petroleum Co.
No. 2197: Drilling rig of Carlsbad Oil and Gas Co., near
Carlsbad, N.M.
Curacao
Views of harbor; steamship passengers and crew; street scenes;
panama hat makers.
Grenada
Pgs. 1-24. Waterfront at Georgetown; residents; street scenes;
steamship passengers, including Winninette Arnold.
Venezuela
Expedition photographs of topography and vegetation; harbors;
residents; city street scenes; fossils on beach; coconut and
hyacinth groves; village public water fountain; churches;
monuments.
Locations: Carabobo;
Caracas; Distrito Federal; Falcon; Porto Cabello; Zulia.
Box 20
Ser. 3/ Volume 9. Curacao and Venezuela,
1913
Physical description: 258 photographs. 62 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Curacao
Views of harbor; steamship passengers and crew; residents;
street vendors.
Venezuela
Jungle vegetation; "coal seams" in rock; oil seepages; asphalt
cones; insects; coffee plants; harbors; villages; residents;
churches; Central Vannina sugar mill.
Locations: Puerto Rico; San Juan Harbor; Tachira;
Zulia.
Others of note: No. 2201,
2232: Winninette Arnold, crew and others on board steamship. No.
2303: Arnold and other geologists removing ticks from their
bodies. [See another view in folder in Box 21.]
Box 21
Ser. 3/ Volume 10. Panama; Venezuela and Caribbean Islands,
1913
Physical description: 228 photographs. 34 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Panama
Panama Canal gates and locks; topography and vegetation;
"Culebra cut" site of fault and landslide; laborers using
drilling equipment and spraying pesticide; workers' housing and
camps. Also views in Panama City of churches, street
scenes.
Venezuela
Expedition photographs of topography and vegetation;
geologists examining asphalt and coal deposits; oil seepages;
desert cactus and sand dunes; jungle and coconut groves. Other
views include residents; adobe houses; churches; plazas; and a
group portrait of Arnold and other Caribbean Petroleum Co.
geologists at Maracaibo.
Locations: Carabobo; Distrito Federal; Falcon;
Maracaibo; Zulia.
Carribean Islands (personal)
Sightseeing photographs by Winninette Arnold, mostly taken
from a ship, of Antigua, Curacao, Dominica, Martinique, Nevis,
Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent.
Box 22
Ser. 3/ Volume 11. United States and Panama, 1913-1914
Physical description: 289 photographs. Handwritten list of contents and
list of captions.
California
Views of oil refineries showing coolers, plants, pipes,
tanks, wells, chemical laboratories; Lakeview Gusher No. 1 well
in Kern County.
Companies:
American Oilfields Co.; American Petroleum Co.
Locations: Coalinga oil field;
Midway field; Sunset field.
Others of
note:
No. 2894-2899: Members of the California
Petroleum Corporation at Midway Field: Dr. Norman Bridge, J. C.
Anderson; G. G. Henry, H. H. Wehrhane, F. Y. Dalziel, Joe
Feeder, H. L. Duer, T. A. O'Donnell and Ralph Arnold.
Colorado
Mountains and canyon views along the Denver and Salt Lake
Railroad. Also scenes of Winninette Arnold and traveling party;
town of Craig; coal mines; ranches (including Walker Ranch and
Walker Mine).
Montana
Topography of Glendive anticline; oil well of Midwest Oil
Co.
Nevada
Primarily views of the Horseshoe Mine in Fay, including
interiors of mill and boiler room.
Wyoming
Views include topography and vegetation; thermal oil springs;
oil wells; drilling rigs; oil pumping equipment.
Companies: Batrum Oil Co.; Big
Horn Oil and Gas Co.; Franco Refining Co.; Midwest Oil Co.;
Northwestern Oil Co.; Ohio Oil Co.; Wyoming Crude Oil Co.; Wyopo
Co.
Locations: Basin District;
"Bird and Hanley property"; Casper; Dallas Field; Douglas Field;
Dutton Basin; Fitzhugh Camp; Grass Creek District; Natrona
County; Oil Mountain (or Riverton Field); Powder River oilfield;
Salt Creek Field; Thermopolis.
Others
of note:
No. 2959-2960: Ralph Arnold. No. 2967-2970:
Ranch families: Littlejohn family at their ranch in Grass Creek
Valley. No. 3012-3013: The E. L. Gwynn family and their log
cabin.
Panama
(1 photograph) No. 2735: A quarantine station at the
coast.
New York (personal)
The Arnolds with family and friends in Kennedy and Schenectady
(home of Mrs. H. W. Peck; campus of Union College).
Box 23
Ser. 3/ Volume 12. United States; Canada; Trinidad and Venezuela,
1913-1914
Physical description: 310 photographs. Handwritten index of locations at
beginning of album. 24 loose pages are in a folder with the album.
Illinois
No. 3401-3425. Views of oil production and some personal
photographs. Includes University of Chicago students viewing oil
fields; Ohio Oil Co. operations near Lawrenceville; University
of Illinois campus.
Montana
(Small number of photographs) Glacier National Park scenery;
oil seepage and well of the Butte Oil Co.
Canada
Primarily views of topography and vegetation. Also coal mines;
camp of the Canadian Geological Survey; oil wells and seepages;
oil advertising signs on a street in Calgary during the oil boom
(1914); marked oil claims.
Companies: B. C. Coal and Oil Co.; British Alberta
Oil Co.; Columbia Oil Co.; Howell Creek Syndicate (coal mining
operation).
Locations: Eastern
and Western Alberta; Belly River; British Columbia (Flathead Oil
District); Calgary.
Trinidad
(Small number of photographs) Topography at San Fernando;
street scenes in Port of Spain.
Venezuela
Views of topography and jungle vegetation; asphalt refinery
(Travers Alsphalt Co.); oil seepages and wells; mud volcano;
residents, villages and schoolchildren.
Locations: Guanoco; Guanipa Concession; Guaraquen;
Monagas; Orinoco Delta; Pedernales Concession; Pirital;
Punceres; Sucre.
Box 24
Ser. 3/ Volume 13. Trinidad and Venezuela, 1913
Physical description: 244 photographs. Handwritten index of locations at
beginning of album. 54 loose pages are in a folder with the album.
Trinidad
No. 3204-3221. Detail views of oil wells and production at
Brighton. Includes male and female laborers.
Venezuela
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation (forests,
orchids, cactus); many large oil springs and seepages and the
remains of birds and animals caught in seepages; asphalt flows;
asphalt cones; craters; salt water springs; rock formations
described in captions as "Badlands topography." Also oil
production and wells at Guanoco, Maremare and Pauji, Sucre. Some
views of residents and houses.
Locations: Distrito Federal; Guanoco Concession; La
Paz; Los Tablazos; Maracaibo; Maremare Concession; Pauji
Concession; Pedernales Concession; San Timoteo; Sucre; Zulia.
Others of note: No.
3130-3134: Geologists next to "Meme Grandisimo" cone, which
Arnold calls "the largest asphalt cone in the San Timoteo
seepages, and probably the largest in South America." No.
3187-3188: "Group of geologists at "the company's house in
Maracaibo - Lewis; Sinclair; Wilde; Roy Merritt; Noehl; Dixon;
McKee; Nash; Arnold; Donnelly; Clark; White." No. 3235: "Guajiro
Indians near Guanoco Lake" (native children).
Box 25
Ser. 3/ Volume 14. United States and Canada, 1914-1915
Physical description: 278 photographs.
California
Views and descriptions of topography at coast and inland;
Sulphur Mountain anticline; oil seepages; oil production in
Ventura County, including a gasoline plant and Ventura Refining
Co. plant under construction. Henry Hamilton, W. R. Hamilton and
V. R. Garfias at Ventura. Also No. 3716-3721 and No. 3776-3777:
San Fernando (Griffith Tract) topography views and oil wells.
Others of note: No. 3812:
Ralph Arnold sitting at his desk in his office, Ventura County.
No. 3778: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
- Petroleum committee jury: Charles E. van Barneveld, W. R.
Hamilton, Charles T. Hutchinson, Anselmo Windhausen, R. P.
McLaughlin, David T. Day, and Ralph Arnold. Personal photographs
of Winninette Arnold; Ralph Arnold at his Stanford University
class of 1899 reunion in group portraits with [Arthur?]
Cathcart, John Maxson Stillman, others.
Massachusetts and Connecticut lecture trip
No. 3734-3747. Photographs of university buildings, students
and colleagues when Arnold visited to give lectures in 1915.
Includes Geologist L. C. (Louis Caryl) Graton and family in
Cambridge. Also students and geology buildings at Harvard
University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. No. 3741:
Prof. Sayles of Harvard, Prof. Lane and President Bumpus of
Tufts College, and Arnold. No. 3745: J. W. Woodworth, geology
professor at Harvard University. No. 3747: Prof. J. W. (John
Walter) Gregory and Prof. Max Farrand [Yale history professor
who would later become the first director of the Huntington
Library] in New Haven, Connecticut.
New Mexico
(5 photographs) Albuquerque - Tourists taking photographs of
Native Americans; portrait of Van H. Manning and F. G. Cottrell
of the Bureau of Mines.
Oklahoma
Views of numerous oil wells, tanks, pipes, boiler plants in
Cushing Field, along Cimarron River. Companies: Devonian Oil
Co.; McMann Oil Co.; North Pool Oil Co.; Quaker Oil Co.
Others of note: No. 3748: Busy
street scene at "Oilton, a new oil town only two or three months
old." No. 3767: Main street of new oil boomtown of
Drumright.
Wyoming
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation; oil wells
and production; drilling rigs; workers; Washakie oil spring.
Companies: Glen Rock Oil
Placer claim (showing hole drilled by "jumper");
Greenlees-Howard oil well; Laurel Oil and Gas Co.;
Montana-Wyoming Oil Co.; Ohio Oil Co.; Utah-Wyoming Oil Co.;
Wyoming Consolidated Oil Co.
Locations: Big Muddy Dome; Byron Dome; Cowley;
Garland Dome; Grenville Dome; Lake Valley; Lander; Shoshone
River Valley.
Others of note:
No. 3612, 3619: Ranch families, log cabin. No. 3729, 3842-3844:
Oregon Trail monument.
Canada
(No. 3646-3715) Western and Eastern Alberta - mostly views and
descriptions of topography, with some oil wells.
Box 26
Ser. 3/ Volume 15. Curacao, Trinidad, and Venezuela, 1914
Physical description: 340 photographs. 50 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Curacao
(Small number of photographs) Harbor views.
Trinidad
(Begins at No. 4236) Oil workers, equipment and wells at Lot
One, Lot Five, Stollmeyer, and Vessigny oil fields. Detail views
of asphalt and oil refineries, Brighton.
Venezuela
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation; oil wells
and production equipment; asphalt flow; sump holes; oil workers
and workers' housing; burros; tractors; Zumaya well No. 1 at
Mene Grande. Other views show residents in daily activities in
villages, street scenes; native houses made of bamboo and palm
leaves; wild orchids; a cemetery; custom house at LaGuayra;
Winninette Arnold and others at lavish houses.
Locations: Cabo Blanco; Caracas;
Distrito Federal; Inciarti; LaGuayra; LaPaz; Macuto; Maracaibo;
Mene Grande field; Perija; Zulia.
Others of note: No. 4058: "Bridge of the Point
Iguana-Petroleo road, showing the Ford automoble which has been
used so successfully in transporting passengers and light
freight in this country."
Box 27
Ser. 3/ Volume 16. Curacao, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Venezuela,
1914-1915
Physical description: 309 photographs. 30 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Curacao
(Small number of photographs) Topography and vegetation;
native huts; views of female black laborers.
Puerto Rico
(Small number of photographs) Street scenes and Spanish forts
in San Juan.
Trinidad
Includes views of oil wells and oil production of United
British Oil Fields; Trinidad Leaseholds Co. and Silver Stream
Oilfields, Ltd. Other scenes show black and Indian laborers;
workers' housing; oil company buildings; warehouses;
orchid-gathering.
Locations:
Brighton; Lot One oil field; Lot Five oil field; Pitch Lake;
Port of Spain; Silver Stream.
Others of
note:
No. 4441: American diplomat Huntington Wilson
(1875-1946) and consul Andrew J. McConnico. Several views of
East Indian men, women and children at a festival in Port of
Spain. Views on board steamships of Ralph and Winninette Arnold,
other passengers and crew.
Venezuela
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation; oil
wells; drilling rigs; pitch cones; oil seepages; geologists
marking locations for wells. Other views show the harbor;
residents; houses in villages; laborers; a lime kiln; gathering
wild orchids.
Locations:
Bermudez Lake; Cristobal-Colon; Delta of the Orinoco
(Pedernales); Guanoco; Maracaibo; Mene Grande; Pajaro Island;
Perija; Sucre; Toas Island; Zulia.
Box 28
Ser. 3/ Volume 17. Curacao, Grenada, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and
Venezuela, 1915-1916
Physical description: 328 photographs. 28 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Curacao
Topography; laborers; Hato Ranch; Quarantine Station at
Caracas Bay; street scene in Wilhelmstadt; residents and
housing; black laborers loading coal in baskets on to
steamship.
Grenada
Street scenes, residents and local produce market in
Grenville; topography and vegetation in Georgetown.
Puerto Rico
San Juan Bay.
Trinidad
Brighton field; oil wells; oil production; oil wells of
Trinidad Oil Fields, Ltd.; sugar mill of "A. Laurie, Hindustan
Estate, Princes Town"; mud volcano. Also camp and property of
the Trinidad Central Oil Fields, Ltd. in Tabaquite oil
field.
Venezuela
Expedition photographs as well as views of residents in daily
work and activity; villages; cocoa groves and cocoa processing;
a sugar cane mill with workers and burros; railroad cars full of
bananas. There are several portraits of residents and scenes of
domestic life. Topography and vegetation views in Merida
(boulders, forest and oil seepages).
Locations: Bobures; Colon; El Castillo; La Ceiba; La
Chama; La Cubo; La Guayra (i.e. La Guaira); La Paloma;
Maracaibo; Merida; Onia; Santa Barbara; Tarra; Zulia.
Others of note: No. 4723: Ralph
Arnold working under mosquito net at the Company's house in
Maracaibo. No. 4817: Portrait of Arnold in his field outfit. No.
4851: Brick and tile factory.
Box 29
Ser. 3/ Volume 18. Puerto Rico and Venezuela, 1916
Physical description: 189 photographs. 11 loose pages are in a folder
with the album.
Puerto Rico
San Juan Bay; Winninette Arnold and others on board
steamship.
Venezuela
Topography and vegetation, with many views of gravel and
sandstone along a river; oil wells and oil production; a coal
mine; oil seepages; buildings of the Venezuelan Oil Concessions,
Ltd. at La Rosa. Other views include residents and villages;
post office, church and street scenes in Maracaibo; wild orchids
growing on trees; Arnold catching butterflies with net; a
Guajiro Indian (Wayuu) woman.
Locations: Bolivar; Colon; Consejo; La Rosa;
Maracaibo; Puerto Palo; Rio Oro; Tarra; Zulia.
(Personal)
Last photographs in album show Winninette Arnold with Stanford
professor Thomas A. Storey, and visiting family in Maine.
Series 4. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-12. United States, Canada, Costa
Rica and Panama, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1901-1927
Physical Description:
12 photograph albums
Box 30
Ser. 4/ Volume 1. United States; Canada; Costa Rica and Panama;
miscellaneous foreign, 1901-1914
Physical description: 254 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains photographs of oil fields and oil production
across several states and in foreign countries, 1901-1914. The
photographs were taken by people other than Arnold and Arnold does
not appear.
Alaska
(2 photographs) No. 186-187: Oil wells and tanks.
California
Photographs include: No. 1-10: (1913) Wells of American
Oilfields Co. and American Petroleum Co. Scenes in Midway oil
field, Coalinga and Fellows. A "Mr. Duer" appears [geologist
John Duer Irving?]. No. 166: (1901) A "primitive refinery" at
McKittrick oil field. No. 63-76: (1913) Surveyors on horseback
in Ventura County.
Illinois
Lawrenceville oil field, 1914. Includes tank farm of the
Standard Oil Co.; wooden tanks at New Murphy field.
Oklahoma
No. 203- 205: Oil wells and topography views, 1913, by R. H.
Wood. No. 214-215: Oil fields, Sapulpa. No. 235-254:
Professional photographs of oil production in Drumright,
depicting wells, oil workers, massive oil tanks and facilities
under construction; smoke filling the air; gushing oil
(approximately 1914).
Pennsylvania
Oil wells in Mount Morris; Greene County and other locations,
1907. No. 190: "Site of Hukill well drilled in 1886. First
producer of oil in the field."
Texas
Spindletop oil field, 1902; oil production views near Electra,
1912.
Wyoming
Topography and vegetation of Emigrant Gap Anticline. Also
Shannon oil wells; Powder River oil field, 1909. Back of album
has commercial photographs by the Gleason Studio, 1912, of oil
refineries in Casper and the Salt Creek oil field.
Canada
Topography in Sage Creek, British Columbia. No. 223, 224:
Panoramic before-and-after views of the Frank Slide (landslide
that buried town of Frank, Alberta, 1903). Pg. 201: Calgary
street scenes showing advertising for "oil indications" and oil
fields for sale, 1914. Some views of topography around Stimpson
Creek.
Costa Rica and Panama
Expedition photographs of topography and vegetation, craters
around Chiriqui volcano. Also a coffee plantation; village
street scenes; residents; cockfighting; petroglyphs at La
Caldera. Villages include El Boquete, David, San Felix.
Misc. foreign
Copies of photographs of oil fields and different methods of
oil production in foreign countries: Romania, Austria, Italy,
Russia (many views), Peru, Germany, Burma.
Box 31
Ser. 4/ Volume 2. United States and Venezuela, 1911-1915
Physical description: 271 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains many personal photographs of the Arnold and
Stokes families and Arnold's professional associates.
California
No. 39- 40. Topography around Piru Creek and Oat Mountain, Los
Angeles County. No. 49-51. Oil gushers at Taft. No. 57-59.
Oil-drilling rig at ranch of Joseph Holmes, San Bernardino. No.
74: Arnold in front of American Oilfields Co. well. No. 152-157.
Santa Maria oil field and group of men identified as "Brown,
Williamson, McNab, Barnes and Simmonds." Back of album has a few
views of concretions and topography in Ventura County.
There
are several views of Winninette (Stokes) Arnold, Stokes family
and J. W. Wood family members in South Pasadena. No. 143: Ralph
and Winninette Arnold's house, South Pasadena. No. 27-31.
Farming scenes on "Rancho del Rio," 1911. Back of album includes
views of Mission San Diego, Mission San Luis Rey, and Mission
San Juan Capistrano.
Group portraits: No. 190.
Paleontologists at the Hancock Ranch, Rancho La Brea, 1915. No.
199: "Ransome, Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Staunton, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs.
Woolsey at Montebello." No. 206. Paleontologists "Clark,
Dickerson, Osborn, Ulrich, Orcutt, W. B. Scott, John C. Merriam,
W. B. Matthew, Bailey Willis, Weaver" at Berkeley, 1915. No.
207-215: Paleontologists Howard Robertson, F. S. Daggett,
Phelps, Merriam, Cockerell, Matthew, Homer Hamlin, W. Z.
Gilbert, Auger, Clute, Yabe, Benton, 1915.
Tennessee
Gordonsburg phosphate mine and workings, 1915. Also views of
phosphate rock in vicinity, and methods of processing
phosphate.
Washington
No. 157-159: Winninette Arnold and others at the Doody
residence, Spokane.
Venezuela
Funeral of geologist Walter R. Nobs, who died in Maracaibo in
1913.
Box 32
Ser. 4/ Volume 3. California, Tennessee, and Texas, 1915-1917
Physical description: 281 photographs. 50 loose photographs and notes
found inside album.
California
Mostly views of oil wells and oil production; water tanks;
refinery buildings; drilling equipment; treatment plants; detail
views in engine rooms. Some photographs of topography showing
faults; mud springs; mud volcano.
Companies: Fortuna Oil Co.; Palmer Union Oil Co.;
Union Oil Co. (Newlove and Pinal Dome); Western Union Oil Co.
Locations: Edison; Imperial
Valley; Kern County; La Habra Hole tract; Los Angeles County;
Rice Ranch; Riverside County; Santa Maria District; Ventura
County.
Others of note: No.
472-487: Panoramic views described as "desirable land" of the La
Habra tract, Los Angeles County. No. 434-438: Land in Edison,
Kern County "owned by Ralph Arnold." No. 455: One view of potash
mine near Nuevo, Riverside County.
Personal: No. 440-454:
Stokes (and Arnold?) family members in group photographs at home
of Frank Stokes (Winninette's father), 1605 Garfield Avenue,
South Pasadena. Also views of potted orchids [most likely
collected by Arnold in Venezuela]; travel scenes with the Mau
family; San Diego and Mission San Juan Capistrano; and No. 527.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stokes Jr. and baby in Covina.
Tennessee
Phosphate mining operations in Mt. Pleasant, Gordonsburg,
Centreville and Rockdale, showing "hydraulic method"; tunnel and
"room" method; exposed limestone; treatment plants and
equipment. Companies: Consolidated Phosphate Co.; Ferro-phos (J.
J. Gray, Jr., owner); Ruhm Phosphate Mining Co.; Volunteer State
Phosphate Co.
Texas
Graphite mine operations of the Texas Graphite Co., near
Burnet. Views of test pits, mill, workers, engine rooms; company
buildings. Also views of mine operations on McCarty Moore
property; Mr. Mau, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and Prof. N. J. Badu.
[See also related photographs in Ser. 7, Vol. 1.]
Box 33
Ser. 4/ Volume 4. United States and Canada, 1917
Physical description: 259 photographs.
Alabama
Graphite mine operations at Taber Mine, Conklin Mine, Jennings
Mine, Greasmere Mine. Some interior views of factories and
equipment.
California
Views and descriptions of topography in El Toro (Orange
County) and San Luis Obispo County.
Personal photographs
show Frank Stokes' South Pasadena garden and potted orchids from
Venezuela on Ralph Arnold's patio; baby Frank Stokes III. No.
722-726: San Fernando Mission.
New York
Graphite mine operations at the Hennen mine near Saratoga
Springs; Hooper Mine near Whitehall; Dixon Mine at Hague;
Rowland Mine near Johnsburg. No. 618: Ralph Arnold's desk, Room
1462, 120 Broadway.
Pennsylvania
Graphite mine operations at Chester Springs.
Texas
Photographs of oil production; graphite mining; topography and
vegetation. Oil wells in Crowther Field and Hoskin's Mound, run
by Texas Coast Development Co., showing wells and camp
buildings. Also workers building a new graphite mill for
Southwestern Graphite Co.
Canada
Views and descriptions along a train trip from Lac La Biche to
Christina River, Alberta. Primarily snow-covered land being
surveyed for oil drilling by Canadian Oil Syndicate.
Box 34
Ser. 4/ Volume 5. United States and Canada, 1917-1919
Physical description: 261 photographs.
Arkansas
Topography of Conway field, describing shale, sandstone and
location of drilling site.
California
Wells and operations of Peerless Oil Co. at Kern River field.
Photographs of earthquake damage in Hemet and San Jacinto
following earthquake of April 21, 1918. Coastal topography
around San Juan Creek, Orange County, with Mr. Mau and Arnold.
Back of album has 3 views of topography of San Juan Capistrano
Canyon.
Personal photographs include the Arnold, Stokes,
Ehrhorn, and Wood family members at Frank Stokes' home and
picnicking in Pasadena Glen. No. 838: Ralph Arnold's home, South
Pasadena. Other friends and family throughout album include Elma
Foster, Ora Stokes, Katherine Bagnall, Elvira Foster, Dr. J. P.
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Naramore. Many photographs of baby
Winninette Arnold (Jr.) and parents Ralph and Winninette Arnold,
including one image of Winninette breastfeeding.
New Mexico
(8 photographs) No. 966-973: Oil operations of Wallace Power
Co., with Arnold and F. B. Springer at site, Albuquerque.
Oklahoma
Views and geological descriptions of Warner Dome, Texanna
Dome, Vian Dome, Russellville Dome topography, featuring river,
sandstone and dipping shale.
Group portraits in Missouri, New York and Washington
D.C.
No. 1032-1033: St. Louis: "Conference of leaders of work in
connection with appraisal of oil properties for Internal Revenue
Bureau." Ralph Arnold with "Mr. Glenn, Richardson, White,
Johnson, DeGolyer, Fisher, Lewis, Savage and Miss Dorothy
Schenk." In New York: No. 996-997: Arthur F. Meston, Dr. and
Mrs. O. S. Lowsley, Dr. Otto Utsinger at Long Island. No.
1013-1017: Miss E. C. Joyce, Ralph Arnold and Mr. Small.
Canada
Alberta and British Columbia scenery, continued from Vol. 4.
Also oil-sand specimens; setting up camp and drilling rig for
the Canadian Oil Syndicate. Other views show Hammerstein's Oil
Works well in the Athabaska District; topography and asphalt
deposits.
Box 35
Ser. 4/ Volume 6. United States; Canada; Cuba, 1919
Physical description: 309 photographs. 2 loose photographs and contents
note found inside album.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains many personal photographs, with some oil and
mining-related views.
California
(Small number of photographs) Topography and vegetation in
Riverside and Lake Elsinore.
Oklahoma
Views of Eufaula Dome and Okemah Dome; J. P. Smith, R. J.
Ketely and Ralph Arnold at Muskogee.
Texas
Oil fields and oil production in Ranger. Also, No. 1099-1100:
Stanford University delegation of the American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, showing Arnold, "Severy, Bradley, Herrold,
Beal, Ambrose" and unidentified.
Washington D.C. (personal)
Many photographs of the Arnolds with their new baby Winninette
(Jr.). Also, Ralph Arnold in his office in the War Industries
Building and portraits of the Internal Revenue Bureau's Oil and
Gas Section staff and J. F. Callan, Assistant to
Commissioner.
Canada
Views of vegetation, canals, trestles between the Florida Keys
while traveling the Florida East Coast Railway.
Cuba
Topography and vegetation views, showing limestone beds,
jungle, canyons, rivers and oil wells on the "Williams lease"
near Guanajay. Other general views of thatched-roof houses,
street scenes in Havana, and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Field, Barnum
Brown and Ralph Arnold bathing at the Yacht Club. Some scenes in
the Florida Keys precede the Cuba photographs.
Box 36
Ser. 4/ Volume 7. United States and Canada, 1919-1920
Physical description: 281 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
This is the first album containing photographs related to Arnold's
involvement in politics and the Herbert Hoover campaign, 1920.
California
Views and descriptions of topography and vegetation, showing
anticlines, sandstone detail, seepages, and prospective oil
land. Also oil and gas evidence in Cache Creek; geologists at
asphalt mine at Sisquoc; earthquake faults in Kern County.
Locations: Avenal Valley (Avenal
Land and Oil Co.), Cache Creek, Chino, Kern County, Riverside,
Santa Barbara County, Sisquoc, Tar Canyon (Dominion oil well),
Ventura County, Yolo County.
Also: Arnold and Stokes family
members at home and traveling, including No. 1612-1641: "Casa
del Oso" ranch of Theodore J. Hoover (1871-1955), engineer and
brother of President Herbert Hoover. Views of grounds, Hoover
and wife Mildred Crew Brooke Hoover with their three daughters.
Other views: No. 1642: John Casper Branner, geologist, and wife,
Susan Kennedy Branner. No. 1643: Prof. John C. Merriam and wife,
Ada Gertrude Little Merriam, in Berkeley.
Illinois
Scenes at the headquarters for presidential candidate Herbert
Hoover, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, June 10, 1920. Group
photographs of "Portion of 'Ruff Nek' club ... Mrs. Newall, Miss
Keating, Miss Smith, Mrs. Koverman, Mr. Richey, Mr. Ely, Mr.
Ellis [and Arnold]." "Hoover for President" signs seen in
background. One view of exterior of Coliseum, Chicago, where
Republican Convention was held.
Montana
Kalispell - Topography views in Flathead Valley, showing
exposed limestone, mountain slopes, lakes. No. 1539: "C. L.
Emmons, George F. Stannard and Swenson, my associates on the
Kalispell examination."
New Mexico
Topography of Puertocito Basin and DeBaca County.
Texas
No. 1573-1591. Vulcan Oil Co. headquarters and details of oil
and gas wells.
Canada
Alberta and Saskatchewan - Views and descriptions of
topography and vegetation; oil and gas wells. No. 1418: Portrait
of Ralph Arnold in leather field coat.
Box 37
Ser. 4/ Volume 8. United States; Cuba; Mexico,1921-1922
Physical description: 348 photographs. Several loose photographs found
inside album, showing San Emigdio Mountains, California (1921); oil
field in Huntington Beach, California (1921); Canyon de Chelly and
Native Americans at Chinle and St. Michaels, Arizona (1921); oil field
in Kentucky (1922); and Rock Springs, Wyoming (1922).
Note: Film negatives exist for 96 prints in this album: pgs.
132-138, 140-167, 170; and loose prints. Negatives are housed
separately in Box 82.
Scope and Content Note
This album begins "London Trip, Mar. 19, 1921" with scenes of Arnold
and others aboard a ship that includes British explorer Ernest
Shackleton (no. 1683).
Arizona
Topography views of rock formations, cliffs, desert, Canyon de
Chelly, cliff dwellings, Navajo Indian Reservation land. Two
views of Native American children at Indian School, Fort
Defiance.
California
(6 photographs only) No. 1863-1868. Bolsa Chica No. 1 oil
well, Huntington Beach; Chino oil well.
Cuba
Views include ox teams carrying loads of sugar cane and used
in farmwork with wooden plow; oil wells and camp of the Rosario
Oil Co. at Teco Teco; several views of residents; asphalt mine
of Oil Trust Ltd. near Mariel; oil seepages and asphalt
exposures; Maruga oil well; native palm trees; Moro Castle. No.
1978. Stone ruins described in caption as "old slave pen."
Mexico
[Majority of album.] Expedition photographs of topography and
vegetation showing desert mesas, limestone shale, mountains,
canyons, cactus; Arnold and geologists in field and in villages,
posing with children. Other views show street scenes, residents,
city and cathedral of Saltillo; sheepherders at Hermanos; a
rancher's thatched hut.
Locations: Barril Viejo Dome; Coahuila; Cuatro
Cienegas; Hermanas; Monclova; Ocampo; Potrero del Berrendo;
Puerto Sacramento; Saltillo; Tanque Falcon.
People identified: Dr. Burton W.
Clark; Seth T. Heney; Mario Blasquiz; Pancho "Francisco"
Cardenas, Jr.; F. M. Cardenas; Carlos Plant, superintendent of
Cardenas Ranch. Also No. 1859. Ralph Arnold in field clothes
with camera.
Box 38
Ser. 4/ Volume 9. California and Hawaii, 1922
Physical description: 191 photographs.
California
(Small number of photographs at back of album.) Dave Clancy
observing oil flow at Coalinga and group portraits of
unidentified men. Also Ralph Arnold and baby daughter Elizabeth
("Betty"); Arnold and Stokes family group portrait on steps of
house; Republican Headquarters banner and information desk,
downtown Los Angeles, Nov. 6, 1922.
Hawaii
[Majority of album.] Primarily personal travel photographs of
a trip to Hawaii, showing scenery and sights of interest. A
traveling party of Ralph and Winninette Arnold, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, and sometimes others are shown
visiting sights. The album begins and ends with scenes of the
crowd at Los Angeles Harbor as the ship "City of Los Angeles"
leaves and returns. Views include a pineapple farm owned by Will
Cooper; Pauwela Pineapple Co. cannery; a sugar mill; Ralph
Arnold in swimsuit on Waikiki Beach.
Box 39
Ser. 4/ Volume 10. United States and Mexico, 1925
Physical description: 254 photographs.
California
Views of oil wells and oil production; topography and
vegetation; oil sand; oil seepages; geologists in field; and an
expedition titled "Heney trip, Oct. 29, 1925" [Seth Heney].
Companies: General Petroleum
Co.; Marland Oil Company; Snowolene Oil Co.
Locations: Coalinga District;
Fresno County; Kettleman Hills; Kings County;
Porterville.
Montana
Views of geologists observing topography and drilling sites
near Alzada, Montana. Views of small towns, local residents,
vast stretches of land. Includes roads between Wyoming, South
Dakota and Montana; rancher Scott Bruce's home; sage cocks; city
of Broadus, Montana; C. L. Emmons and his oil syndicate office,
Shelby, Montana.
New Mexico
Topography views showing rock formations, buttes and cliffs in
Cutter Dome; Elephant Butte Dam and Lake; Gallup; Sierra County.
Also: a Navajo Indian woman weaving and hogans "near Baker's
Store" 15 miles from Gallup; a natural cave known as "Kit
Carson's Cave."
Texas
Oil and mining views: Rycade Oil Co. in Eagle Pass; hard
limestone beds and shale; oil wells and camp of Boicourt Oil
Co.; quarries of Texas Rock and Asphalt Co. and Uvalde Asphalt
Co.; views and descriptions of mineral deposits in cliff beds;
geologists examining land around San Antonio River.
Mexico
[Begins at No. 2282.] Views of residents, villages, houses;
topography of Coahuila; faults, asphalt and calcite, rivers,
desert, cactus. No. 2323-2324. A. P. Anderson, I. N. Boicourt
and Ralph Arnold on banks of Rio Grande, standing over a diagram
drawn in sand. Views of geologists studying land on Texas side
and Mexico side of Rio Grande. No. 2384. Pancho "Francisco"
Cardenas, Jr. "our host on several delightful visits."
Box 40
Ser. 4/ Volume 11. United States and Canada, 1927
Physical description: 360 photographs.
California
Colusa County topography and vegetation; steam escaping from
well at Mullet Island, Imperial County; San Bernardino County
"Tebo well" and views of oil sand near Chino. One view of
Mission San Juan Bautista. Also, Arnold and Stokes family
members in South Pasadena.
Colorado
Oil wells in Las Animas County.
Montana
Views of oil wells, coal beds, topography, exposed sandstone.
Back of album has many detail views of Kevin oil field, showing
workers' cabins, tanks, and interiors of compressor plant and
boiler room. There are scenes of Arnold and Charles A. Mau,
petroleum engineer, at "bringing in of their first well, Pondera
No. 1," in Conrad, including group portraits of oil men and
workers. [See also Series 8, vol. 3]
Locations: Bannatyne field; Billings; Cat Creek
Field; Conrad; Devil's Basin field; Great Falls; Ivanhoe; Kevin
field; Kremlin; Pondera field; Rattlesnake Butte; Sweetgrass
Hills; Winnecook.
Others of
note:
No. 2443. "Typical deserted homesteader's
cabin" in Brady. No. 2460: Charles A. Mau, President of Montana
Pacific Oil Co. No. 2459: "Chessher, Battersby, Emrick, Fulton"
at Pondera well. No. 2500. "Indian village, Blackfeet
[Reservation]" [distant view of tepees]. No. 2615: Cat Creek
Field, with "C. T. Lupton, who discovered this field, and E. B.
Emrick ...over 3,750,000 bbls. of high grade oil taken out of
125 acres shown in this picture." Includes family vacation
photographs of the Arnold family at Glacier National
Park.
South Dakota
Scenery around Custer State Park; South Dakota Senator Peter
Norbeck, and Sally Norbeck (No. 27-161).
Wyoming
No. 2619: L. D. Connolly's "wildcat" well. No. 2620: Group
portrait of "Lupton (geologist), Rosenberg (financier), McKnight
(driller), and Kirk (promoter) of Frannie Dome, Park County."
One view of Ohio Oil Co. well.
Canada
British Columbia - Sage Creek field and oil wells and camps of
British Columbia Oil and Gas Co. and Glacier Oil Co.
Box 41
Ser. 4/ Volume 12. [Ferdig Oil Company album] 1926-1927
Physical description: 44 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
"Montana, Wyoming, Sage Creek, B.C." is written on the cover of this
small album related to Ferdig Oil Co. All are duplicates of
photographs in Series 4, Vol. 11 except (1 - 5), which show oil
derricks of Ferdig Oil Co. including "Ferdig-Hughes-Anderson No. 6"
well. The duplicate photographs are of oil operations in Kevin
field, Banatyne field and Pondera field, Montana; Oregon Basin
field, Wyoming; and Sage Creek field, British Columbia, Canada. No.
22 is a portrait of oilman Sylvester C. Ferdig.
Series 5. Photograph Album. Vol. 1. "Technical" (primarily
California), 1913-1914
Physical Description:
1 photograph album
Box 42
Ser. 5/ Volume 1. "Technical"
1913-1914
Physical description: 175 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains photographs of the technical aspects of oil
drilling. It is the only album with "T" and "Technical" written on
spine of album. The first part of the album (pgs. 1-71) contains
duplicate photographs from other albums depicting modes of
transporting equipment and supplies; oil drilling machinery;
workers; structures; and equipment, but are not identified. Many of
these photographs were also made into lantern slides to accompany
Arnold's lectures. "Technical" is a theme in several of the slide
sets. See Lantern slides, Boxes 67-76.
The second half of the
album contains photographs of California oil wells, with captions.
Page 72 begins: "From here to page 93…views of the different phases
of the work of building pipeline of General Petroleum Co. from
Midway to San Pedro." The remaining pages show "technical" details:
hauling water and fuel oil by mule-team; drilling for oil in
Kettleman Hills; other equipment and machinery.
Series 6. Photograph Album. Vol. 1. Harold Hannibal photographs,
Pacific Coast and New Mexico, 1909-1915
Physical Description:
1 photograph album. "Hannibal" and
"MISC." written on spine.
Box 43
Ser. 6/ Volume 1. Harold Hannibal photographs, Pacific Coast and
New Mexico,
1909-1915
Physical description: 257 photographs.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs are by Harold Hannibal, a geologist and paleontologist
who co-wrote a paper with Arnold called “The Marine Tertiary
Stratigraphy of the North Pacific Coast of America,”
Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society,
1913.
California
Predominately views and descriptions of topography and
geological features, with only two views of oil wells in
Tapo Canyon, Simi Valley. At site are "Messrs. Wheat,
DeFreest, Koeberle and Moore" examining rock (No. 188).
Locations: Calaveras
Valley; Carmel; Catalina Island; Contra Costa County; Corral
Hollow; Crescent City; Dixieland; Eel River; Garbeville;
Imperial Valley; Kettleman Hills; Marysville Buttes; Merced
Falls; Monterey Bay; Mt. Diablo; Oroville; San
Benito-Monterey County; San Bruno; San Diego; San Pedro
Hills; Simi Valley.
Others of
note:
No. 120: Oil wharf with pipeline, Monterey.
No. 178-179: Chinese laborers at Calexico, Ca., waiting for
train to take them to work in cotton fields at Mexicali,
Baja. No. 209: Howard Hannibal standing next to "best fossil
locality in the Monterey - 27-mile drive between Pebble
Beach Lodge and Carmel."
New Mexico/Texas border
Topography and vegetation views, showing mountains and
springs, sandstone, dry river beds. One view of oil well in
Rocky Arroyo, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island and Sooke
Harbor, British Columbia
Many views and descriptions of coastal topography, beaches
and cliffs, particularly in the Olympic Peninsula. Others of
note: No. 4-5: J. M. McDonald and Harold Hannibal at Oak
Bay. No. 143-146: Native Americans (described as "Siwashes,"
most likely Coast Salish or Quinault) catching fish on beach
at Taholah.
Series 7. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-3. "Graphite" (mining, primarily
Texas), 1916-1919
Physical Description:
3 photograph albums
Box 44
Ser. 7/ Volume 1. "Graphite 1,"
1916-1918
Physical description: 269 photographs. "Graphite 1" written on spine.
Alabama
Taber Mine; Conklin Mine (Conklin Graphite Company); Jennings
Mine; Greasmere Mine; Western Star Mine.
New York
Hennen Mine (graphite ore) near Saratoga Springs, showing mine
openings supported by timber. Also quarries and operations of
Hooper Mine near Whitehall; Dixon Mine near Hague; Rowland Mine
near Johnsburg.
Pennsylvania
Graphite mines and mills in Chester Springs - "Wood property";
Rock Graphite Co.; Lille Graphite Co.; Fontin Graphite Co.;
Standard Carbon Co.
Texas
Pg. 24-65: Texas Graphite Co. mining operation in Burnet
County. Graphite mines, workers' camps and company buildings;
graphite ore processing; quarries. Mines identified: Downman
Mine; Dorbandt Graphite Mine; Lyman graphite property; McCarty
Moore property.
Others of note:
Pg. 55: P.B. McCabe, president, and Dan McFarland, V.P., Texas
Graphite Co. Pg. 61: Mr. C. A. Mau, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hamilton
and Prof. N. J. Badu. [See also related photographs in Series 4,
Vol. 3.] Pg. 112-228: Southwestern Graphite Co. ore mining
operation near Granite Mountain and Burnet: demolition of old
mill and siting of new mill; rock quarry; workers and processing
methods. Pg. 118-121: Albert Doerr, superintendent, and other
employees: H. H. Tucker, Fred Peck, Dan Stitt, Dr. Jon A .
Udden. Pg. 147: H. H. Tucker, Ellingsworth (chemist), Andrews
(mill construction foreman), Duaei [sic](bookkeeper and
stenographer); Albert Doerr; Ralph Arnold.
Box 45
Ser. 7/ Volume 2. "Graphite 2,"
1918-1919
Physical description: 74 photographs. "Graphite 2" written on spine.
Texas
Continuation of Southwestern Graphite Co. ore mining operation
near Granite Mountain and Burnet. Quarry scenes; mill
operations; heavy equipment; aftermath of blasting rock;
workers' housing; employees (H. B. Johnson, George L. Felt and
several others); two views of Ralph Arnold.
Box 46
Ser. 7/ Volume 3. Graphite [duplicates], 1916; 1918
Physical description: 94 photographs.
Texas
Duplicate photographs of graphite mining from previous two
albums (Series 7, Vols. 1 and 2). Many without captions. The
first portion (No. 266-282) are duplicates of Vol. 1 and the
remainder appear in Vol. 2.
Series 8. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-9. United States; Canada;
Mexico, 1923-1935
Physical Description:
9 photograph albums
Box 47
Ser. 8/ Volume 1. California,
1923
Physical description: 40 photographs.
California
Arnold and others locating the site of the first well of the
Snowolene Oil Co. in Fresno County, April 10, 1923. Other
scenes: paleontologist John C. Merriam and Prof. Miller
inspecting tar at Brea Pit, Hancock Ranch, Los Angeles [i.e. La
Brea Tar Pits, Hancock Park]. There are also group portraits at
the American Institute of Mining Engineers luncheon in Ojai,
including Dr. J. P. Smith, Harry Johnson, Walter Mendenhall,
Hoyt Gale, and Ralph Arnold. Personal photographs show the
Tournament of Roses parade, Jan. 1, 1923; Arnold's daughter
Winninette (Jr.); Pasadena Pioneers picnic at the residence of
J. R. Giddings, with a portrait of Mrs. Millie Watts and her
four sons, including Harvey Watts, "first boy born in Pasadena,"
and Louise Conger. Also Stokes family group portraits at wedding
of Ann Stokes to Charles Phillips.
Box 48
Ser. 8/ Volume 2. United States,
1926
Scope and Content Note
The first half of this album contains personal travel photographs, many
unidentified. The remainder of the album are oil and mining related
photographs.
Physical description: 389 photographs.
Alabama
Graphite mining workers and operations.
Arizona
Views labeled "Experimental plant - tailing dumps" showing
mounds of processed rock and workers at Congress Mine, Yavapai
County.
California
Arnold and Los Angeles attorney Oscar Lawler inspecting
sandstone conglomerate "below Hearst water tunnel" in Tuna
Canyon and Topanga Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains. Captions say
"water suit" [Arnold consulting on a lawsuit?].
Others of note: No. 384-395: Men
setting spike in land at "Mitchell-Marland location," Coalinga
district. No. 26-30. Portrait of Samuel C. Graham, oilman and
economist. Also Stokes family members on porch of Frank Stokes'
house, 1605 Garfield Ave., South Pasadena.
Montana
Arnold and a group (captioned "rock and lease hounds")
examining terrain, rock formations, sandstone, fossils. Also, W.
S. Hawley and his oil refinery at Kevin oil field; Pondera oil
field "Emrick Structure" [E. B. Emrick]; Fort Benton; a ranch
family at Genou (and child with pet badger); No. 165. Log cabin
at Marias River; No. 192-284. The Arnolds in Glacier National
Park; No. 113. "McNair's old ranch," Great Falls.
Texas
Construction at graphite mine, Burnet. Several views of oil
wells, derricks and oil production at Borger; also main street
and storefronts in town.
Box 49
Ser. 8/ Volume 3. United States and Mexico, 1926-1927
Physical description: 190 photographs.
California
Views include bubbling, hot mud springs, Mullet Island, San
Diego County; oil wells in Petaluma; Devil's Canyon anticline in
Piru Creek, Ventura County, with A. W. Taylor, James H. Pierce,
and E. C. Page; and J. M. Goodwin's well, Cob Canyon oil field,
Santa Barbara. Also: Ralph Arnold in his garden at his home; his
daughter Betty; travel scenes in Yosemite and Santa Barbara; and
portraits of an African American couple and baby identified only
as "Leon, his wife, and baby Charlene."
Montana
Charles A. Mau, Ralph Arnold and William M. Fulton (driller)
at Pondera oil well the "day it came in ... June 16, 1927." [See
similar in Series 4, vol. 11]
Texas
Southwestern Graphite Co. mining operation in Burnet. Views of
quarry, mineral deposits in shale. Two views of an African
American woman and her baby labeled "Jay's (cook) wife and
baby."
Mexico
Oil wells and topography views in Barril Viejo, Coahuila;
wells of the Ohio Oil Co. and one photograph of Pancho
"Francisco" Cardenas Jr.
Box 50
Ser. 8/ Volume 4. United States,
1928-1930
Physical description: 421 photographs.
California
Various topography and oil production views including oil
seepages; earthquake faults in San Pedro; fossil beds in
Imperial County; and detailed descriptions of marine mineral
deposits on San Nicolas Island. Arnold is seen viewing fossils,
shells and abalone on "Indian mounds." Captions explain variety
of shells and their use by the native population.
Locations: Edna Oil Field;
Ellwood Terrace Field; Goleta oil field; Mullet Island; Newhall;
San Luis Obispo County; San Nicolas Island (Channel Islands);
San Pedro; Santa Barbara County; Ventura County Companies:
Barnsdall-Rio Grande Oil Co.
Others of
note:
No. 28-24. Santa Clara River wreckage on day of
St. Francis Dam disaster (March 12, 1928). No. 28-38. Charles A.
Son and his oil well, Goleta Field. No. 30-4. Petroleum
geologist William W. Orcutt on Hill lease of Union Oil Co.,
Lompoc, Santa Barbara County. No. 30-21. Ralph Arnold collecting
fossils on San Nicolas Island. Some views of Arnold family at
home and in group portraits.
Idaho
Arnold on horseback at Snake River, Black Mountain
Dome.
Michigan
Views and descriptions of topography around Long Lake
formation and Black River anticline; men at Muskegan Oil Field
marking location of well for Atlantic Exploration Co.;
geologists examining Michigan Peninsula oil fields, Lake Huron
shore, sandstone, shale beds.
Montana
Gusher of oil from Pondera well, between Great Falls and
Conrad. Also views of other wells on Pondera oil field:
Chessher; Texas and Pacific Oil Co.; Fulton well; California
Petroleum. Bannatyne oil field and Elk Basin oil field (partly
in Wyoming). Ralph Arnold and C. T. Lupton in some photographs.
Locations: Billings; Black
Gulch Dome; Broadview Dome; Devils Pocket; Hidden Water Dome;
Lake Basin Oil Field; Lost Creek Structure; Opheim Structure;
Six Shooter Structure; Soap Creek; Sun River Dome; Toluca
structure; Valley County; Whitetail; Woman's Pocket Dome.
Others of note: No. 28-98. "Albert
Nelson, Wiley, Schlicter, Archie" next to post that reads
"Whitetail. Entrance to Oil Field." No. 28-136. H. F. Stewart
and others at Lost Creek.
Washington D.C.
White House bedroom where Arnold stayed as the guest of
President and Mrs. Hoover, November 1930.
Wyoming
Oil wells, test pits, workers at Frannie Structure; Westland
Oil Co.; Alkali Dome, Gebo Structure; Black Mountain Structure
(drilling site of Burham Exploration Co.). Topography views of
Derby Structure, Freemont County and men standing at "drilling
site for deep well on Derby Anticline" (No. 29-92).
Box 51
Ser. 8/ Volume 5. United States,
1931
Physical description: 420 photographs.
Arizona
Mining; panning; gravel washing equipment; geologists in field
on mules; topography and detail of ore veins in rock, etc.
Locations: Antelope Valley;
Mexican Gulch (gold deposits): Octave Mine; Signal; Yavapai
County (Forback Mining Co.). A caption says some photographs
reference information in "Beaudette's report, Dec. 1931." Group
portrait of "mine owners at Signal - Bill Rogers, Kirkland,
Judge Barnum, Wiston."
California
Two oil sites: "Mack ranch" near Camp Kearny and Moody Gulch,
Santa Clara County. The majority are mining views: mine tunnels
and processing operations; quarries; prospecting; topography and
oil saturated rock, etc.
Locations:
Several Mother Lode mines, including the large-scale
operations of Plymouth Mine. Also mines in Calaveras, Inyo,
Kern, Placer, Santa Barbara and Tuolumne counties. Views of the
buildings and workings of Coliseum Mine, San Bernardino County,
and gold ore above a mine tunnel. Other views show the "Stokes
and Righetti properties," Casmalia, and "Righetti Sr., Righetti
Jr., Stokes, Winninette Arnold, Bagg, Metcalf and Sanderson."
(No. 31-310). There are detail views of mining tunnels and walls
of quartz and ore for Tropico Mine and Fairview Mine in
Rosamond, Kern County. Others of note: Men with fossils
collected at Stanford University summer Geology Camp in Ventura
County; Arnold's daughters and family friends.
Nevada
Mining town of Hollywood and Beatty Mining Co. mining
operations. Interior views of mine, hoisting equipment,
compressors, mine workings; group portrait outside Beatty Gold
Mines office.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City oil field dense with large-scale oil production.
Topography views of Arbuckle Uplift and views of Viola
limestone, sandstone, oil sand. Group portraits of men related
to an oil lawsuit of Champlin Refining Co. vs. Corporation
Commission of Oklahoma.
Texas
Photographs of Arnold's trip through the East Texas oil field
with geologist J. S. Hudnall, and main street of "oil town" of
Kilgore.
Box 51
Ser. 8/ Volume 6. United States and Canada, 1914-1920; 1932
Physical description: 473 photographs.
Arizona
Mining scenes include "sluice box method" of sorting gravel in
stream bed; surveying potential mining locations in Laguna Dam
Placer; mining camps; Pauley Mine; Oro Grande Mine; Vulture
Mountain Camp.
California
Views of Stokes oil property, Casmalia, Santa Barbara County
and oil operations in Ventura County, with interior views of
shop and mill. There are topography views in the San Gabriel
Mountains near Monrovia containing "red gold bearing thermal
spring deposits," and men assessing fault cracks in San Pedro.
Mining photographs show Colloidal Gold Mill near Monrovia
residences. Also views of Mother Lode area, Kurtz Mill, showing
machinery and operations; Peterson Mine and Central Eureka Mine,
Amador County; Beebe Mine, China Hill, Golden Ophir, Frenchman's
Mine, in El Dorado County; and Gaston Mine, Nevada County.
Personal photographs show the Arnolds and their house and garden
covered in a rare snow in San Marino. Others of note: No.
32-291. "All of the territory of this hill is high grade
colloidal gold ore." No. 32-430. Ralph Arnold's office and desk
in the Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles.
Colorado
Mines in Ohio City and Ward, showing tunnels and mining
operations, including Chloride Mine Division.
Montana
Dry Creek Oil Field - topography and workings of Ohio Oil
Co.
Nevada
Expedition views in desert of Las Vegas, with men examining
gravel, Arden Anticline and Arden Dome areas. Also some
mines.
Oklahoma
Petroleum engineering laboratory at University of Oklahoma,
and Drs. Monette and Decker. Ralph Arnold and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
O. Glasser on a salt plain north of Enid. Also town views of
Poteau and three different gold mines, with geologists taking
samples of shale.
Texas
East Texas oil fields. Views and descriptions of mechanics for
measuring gas flow from wells.
Wyoming
Views of Big Muddy Oil Field, Converse County; the O.B. Barber
lease oil property; Texas Oil Co. refinery; and the Continental
Oil Co. refinery.
Canada
Oil wells in the Turner Valley Oil Field, Alberta, but
primarily topography and investigation scenes in Alberta.
Box 53
Ser. 8/ Volume 7. United States,
1933
Physical description: 300 photographs.
California
Oil and mining views primarily, and some investigations of
geothermal activity at Coso Hot Springs, including a copper
plate covered with quicksilver after being held over steam.
Mining views show Arlington Mine, San Bernardino County, and the
"cyanide plant" of the mine; details of molten sulphur flow;
tunnels to mines; oil sands.
Locations:
Alpine County (Colossus Mine and Leviathan Sulphur
Mine); Coalinga district; Kettleman Hills Oil Field and old well
sites of Echo Oil Co.; Midway Peak Oil Field; Plumas-Eureka
Mine; Standard Mine, Mojave.
Others of
note:
No. 24-33. Frank Banks in office of "Arnold
Exploration Company." No. 255-32. Group portrait of "people
involved in Kettleman Hills vs. Elliott [lawsuit] on courthouse
steps, Hanford, Ca., 1933." No. 184-33: "Roderick Burnham,
Bierce, W. Q. Wright and H. B. Bardue" at Leviathan Mine.
Montana
Scenes at several mines showing mills, ore bins, buildings,
machinery, tunnel openings, and topography. One view of Ralph
Arnold in snowshoes, out in field.
New Mexico
Mines around the town of Golden and Ortiz Grant area,
including an old mine "carried on by Thomas A. Edison about 40
years ago" and screens used in his experimental mill (No.
100-33). Also ruins of buildings in Dolores, and descriptions of
how gold is naturally washed from the mountains into the bed of
the Galisteo River.
Oklahoma
Workers and operations at City oil field, Oklahoma
City.
Washington
"Mr. Bullock's ranch" near Seattle.
Box 54
Ser. 8/ Volume 8. United States and Mexico, 1934
Physical description: 426 photographs.
Arkansas
Views of El Dorado Refinery, showing MacMillan Petroleum Corp.
oil storage and asphalt plant.
California
Various scenes related to oil and mining operations, including
oil sand samples being taken at Pioneer anticline, Kern County,
"from which Midway Peak wells will get their oil"; Dudley Ridge
oil field and a blown-out well; coal beds in hills; locating
test wells in Napa County. Many views of large operations of the
MacMillan Petroleum Corporation in Richmond, showing storage
tanks, pipelines to wharf, tanks of oil on railroad-loading
racks and boxes of Macmillan motor oil produced by plant. Also
views of MacMillan oil refinery operations in Signal Hill, Long
Beach, showing details of machinery, buildings and workings, and
interior of a laboratory. In Iron Canyon, Kern County, views
show gold-bearing gravel in hills and canyons and a man seen
blowing dust from pan to reveal small specks of gold.
Companies: Griffiths Oil Co.;
Mileage Gasoline Co.; Panorama Oil Co.; San Joaquin Valley Coal
Mining Co.
Locations: Midway
Peak oil district (San Luis Obispo County); Newhall, Long Beach,
and Torrance-Redondo oil fields (Los Angeles County); Ventura
County.
Others of note: No.
34-388: "A typical gas station in Oakland." Also Arnold and
Stokes families; the Arnolds and others at reunion of Pasadena
High School's class of 1894.
Montana
Mountain mining area of Granite County, showing Arnold and
colleagues taking samples "to be sent to Universities" and the
cabins they stayed in during expedition. Also Toro Mining Co.
tunnels, shale, quartzite locations written on some photographs.
No. 34-106: Ralph Arnold with bag of ore samples collectd from
Mount Ora.
Mexico
Mining views in Coahuila, Puebla and Zacatecas. Workers are
shown with piles of extracted ore; carrying stones out of mine
and at a smelter. At Noche Buena Mine in Zacatecas, loads of ore
are transported on an incline tramway.
Box 55
Ser. 8/ Volume 9. California and Mexico,
1935
Physical description: 327 photographs. 3 photographs and a handwritten
index found loose inside the album.
California
This album contains mostly mining views, with a few
oil-related photographs of Poso Creek oil field and wells in
Kramer and Randsburg. Mining photographs show numerous working
mines; buildings, camps and equipment; mine shafts; descriptions
of values of ore taken from mines; descriptions of a reservoir
that delivers water to mines at Soledad Mountain; and details of
topography.
Locations: Amador
County mining camps; Baker; Eldorado County; Elsinore (Riverside
County); Inyo County; Kern County; Neenach mining district (Los
Angeles County); Placer County; Soledad Mountain; Sonora
(Tuolumne County mining district). Some of the mines shown are
Old Dominion Mine, Cimarron Mine, Stewart Placer Mine, Placers,
Inc., Three Star Mine (Art Bardue and H. B. Bardue in
photographs); Shan Tsz Mine; Golden Aster Mine.
Others of note: No. 35-35: View of
"tank through which miners were forced to swim after coming from
mine ... to prevent the stealing of high grade ore." Also,
Arnold's daughter Winninette (Jr.) entering Stanford
University.
Mexico
Mining views show topography; workers hand-sorting ore; mules
carrying ore; mine operations; smelter plants; veins of ore in
rock; gold and copper mining. Locations include Guerrero-Taxco
District, showing ancient mines and current mines; Almoloya de
Algeciras [i.e. Almoloya de Alquisiras] residents and huts; Las
Minas mining district; Quitabac, Sonora; Carlos Pacheco Mine.
Views include Ralph Arnold collecting wild orchids; "Dr.
Jackson's mine"; Louis Estrada and his family; mine shafts from
which many "thousands of dollars were taken"; gravel pits; women
drawing water from old well. Also Aztec ruins and historic
buildings in Teotihuacan, and street scenes, vendors, and
ancient aqueduct in Zacualpan.
Others of
note:
No. 35-55. Ralph Arnold at tunnel entrance to
Dios Nos Guie Mine. No. 35-243: "Chief of the Papago Indians and
family at Quitabac." No. 35-145: "V. E. Metcalf, Richards, Rupp
and Ridings" holding 75 kilo lead-silver bar from mine in
Southern Puebla. No. 35-182: Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Metcalf at their
home in Puebla.
Series 9. Photograph Albums. Vols. 1-9. United States, Canada, and
Mexico, 1936-1954
Physical Description:
9 photograph albums
Box 56
Ser. 9/ Volume 1. United States; Canada; Mexico, 1936-1937
Physical description: 203 photographs. Notes and drawings by Arnold, 3
photographs, and 2 letters (1937) from H. A. Gould to Ralph Arnold and
B. N. Jackson regarding gravel property in Plymouth, California.
California
Oil and mining views, including burning gas; gas bubbling from
wells; sandstone quarries; views and descriptions of topography,
with many panoramic views.
Locations:
Abandoned and active mining sites in La Panza District,
San Luis Obispo County; oil in counties of Butte; Colusa; Contra
Costa, Glenn; Humboldt; Inyo; Los Angeles (Puente Hills);
Merced; Napa; Sacramento; San Joaquin; San Luis Obispo; Solano;
Stanislaus; Sutter; Tehama; Yolo. Companies: Amerada Petroleum
Co.; Coast Exploration Co.; Continental Oil Co.; Northern
Counties Petroleum Co.; Orland Oil Syndicate Ltd.; Standard Oil
Co.
Others of note: Pg. 119:
"core house" of the Milhan Co. at Tracy Front, San Joaquin
County, with soil core samples laid out on racks. (see also pg.
109, 179 for core samples). Also Winninette (Jr.) and roommates
(at Stanford?); Arnold family at San Marino home throughout the
album.
Oklahoma
Begins pg. 147 with heading "Oklahoma Trip, Feb. 27-37
[1937]." Several oil wells, no captions.
Washington
Oil and mining views, including pg. 77: oil well and camp of
the Peoples Oil and Gas Development Co., with caption: "showing
the fine camp and up-to-date equipment [of] one of the best
wildcat outfits I ever saw." Pg. 81: Mountain cave where ice is
kept in summer.
Wyoming
Views and descriptions of snow-covered topography; LaBarge oil
district land; Big Piney Basin.
Canada
Pg. 87: Wisteria, British Columbia. Group of Arnold, Clifford
Harrison, A. E. Verner and Ed Harrison going out on backpacking
expedition to Sibola Range; views of ore veins in rock.
Mexico
Begins on pg. 13 with geologists surveying Angostura Gorge,
Sonora; many photographs of mountains are written on with
descriptions of fault lines and other characteristics. Two views
of workers and camp of the Irrigation Commission.
Box 57
Ser. 9/ Volume 2. United States and Canada, 1938-1942
Physical description: 284 photographs.
Note: Film negatives exist for 62 prints in this album: pgs.
61-64, 70-73, 122-125, 134-143, 145-149, 152-157, 159. Negatives are
housed separately in Box 82.
California
Mostly topography views made while Arnold and others are
conducting investigations, with a few oil wells and several
mines identified by name only, such as Wooley's Mine (mine
operations; equipment; digging; panning for gold; placer mining
operations). Some photographs in the album are marked by Arnold
to show where ore veins run and locations for prospecting. Some
detail views of rocks extracted from open cuts in mountain;
descriptions of proposed drill sites; old mines in Tustin; shale
and sandstone along beach and Pacific Coast Highway at Dana
Point.
Other locations:
Chatsworth Reservoir (Los Angeles County) showing open land,
hills, shale, and investigation of an oil seepage; Costa Mesa;
Newport Bay and San Joaquin Hills; Orange County and Riverside
County mines; San Bernardino County.
Others of note: Pg. 12: mud volcano area in Artesia,
Los Angeles County. Pg. 118: "Party at Lucky Strike Mine -
McIntyre - Hendrickson [and Arnold and two others] Nov. 30,
1941." Pg. 132. Portrait of geologist Seth Heney. Pg. 146: Tom
Smith, Sid Grauman and Earl Lambert at Kernville. Others
identified throughout album (some by surname only): Reiss;
Walden; Hamilton; Hoag; Getzen[?]; Peterman; McKennis; Gottsch;
Reynolds; Herbert Hoover Jr.; McPherson; E. J. Miley and William
Gilbert. The Arnolds and daughters are seen in group portraits
at home, and a group is seen at Arnold's office in Los Angeles:
"Messrs. Randolph, Batton and Parsons and Miss Shellemiller in
office, July 26, 1940."
Montana
(Small number of photographs at back of album.) Arnold is
shown with "Preston - attorney, J. Cleveland, and Sidney
Armitage" in Billings, looking over oil district.
Utah
Mostly topography views, and one mine. Very little caption
information.
Canada
Alberta - Oil wells in Lloydminster and Wainwright; Arnold and
others visiting sites; posed with equipment.
Box 58
Ser. 9/ Volume 3. United States,
1942-1944
Physical description: 165 photographs. List of captions, notes, and 3
photographs found inside album.
Note: Film negatives exist for 78 prints in this album: pgs. 1-3,
12, 14-16, 21-24, 26-27, 31-34, 42-46, 48-51, 54-59, 61-64, 80,
82-84, 128-129, 132-135. Negatives are housed separately in Box 82.
Arkansas
Pg. 137: Alfred MacMillan and others in Little Rock.
California
Mostly views of sites for potential oil wells, with a few
mining scenes; captions are sparse in this album. Includes Kern
River Oil Field, showing plaque marking location of Discovery
Well of 1899; Rickenbach Lease, Piru Canyon, Ventura County; oil
wells at Niland, Imperial County; San Benito County fault zone.
Others of note: Pg. 14. Group of geologists on field trip at
Elysian Park, Los Angeles, 1943. Pg. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Mercado,
Winninette Arnold and daughter Winninette (Jr.). Pg. 132-133.
"[Pasadena High School?] Class Reunion, June 26, 1944." Group
portrait of 11 men and women, including the Arnolds.
Nevada
Oil wells in Las Vegas; no further information.
New Mexico
Davis Dome, Otero County. Hueco limestone descriptions and
unidentified scenes.
Oklahoma
Two photographs of oil well on pg. 138: "Stroud's well, Aug.
10, 1944."
Oregon
View of Charles L. Lull's lab in Grant's Pass (sign says
"Assaying and Metallurgy"). Pg. 117. Geologists at
Beryllman.
Utah
Pg. 22-27. Rock formations and marking of new well site at
Castle Dale Dome.
Box 59
Ser. 9/ Volume 4. United States,
1944-1947
Physical description: 234 photographs. Notes found inside album.
Note: Film negatives exist for 126 prints in this album: pgs. 4-5,
8-9, 12, 29-42, 46, 52-65, 68-69, 73, 78-84, 93-94, 99-115, 133,
135-151. Negatives are housed separately in Box 82.
California
Arnold and others visiting a mine site at Blythe; Patrick
Creek Mine; Webb Mine; placer mining in Redding. Other locations
shown: Coalinga; Hooker Dome, Shasta County; Lancaster; Oak
Spring Ranch; Madera Structure; Saugus. Personal photographs
show the wedding of Arnold's daughter Elizabeth ("Betty"), 1944;
Pasadena High School class of 1894 reunion; Arnold family and
theirbaby granddaughter Ginny; and a portrait of man named Fred
Gordon in an office.
Oregon
Quicksilver Mine; "Lull's Plant"; Holcomb Mineral Spring; and
views of rock, faults and sandstone at Ostrander Ranch,
Carpenterville.
Texas
Men "bailing oil out of old well on Wilson Ranch," Val Verde
County.
Utah
Panoramic landscape views and a group on site at Soldier
Summit and Cache Valley. Oil wells and oil flowing into barrels
at Rozelle, and a group of oil workers standing in front of
derrick (pg. 143).
Box 60
Ser. 9/ Volume 5. California, Utah, and unidentified, 1947-1949
Physical description: 232 photographs. Notes and 5 photographs found
inside album.
Note: Film negatives exist for 64 prints in this album: pgs. 3-7,
9-10, 12, 125-126, 128-162. Negatives are housed separately in Box
82.
California
Men making carbon tetrachloride test of oil sand from slush
box at Willette well, Mojave Desert, owned by Willette Oil Co.
Inc. Views of a lime kiln; small landslide near Sargent;
limestone quarry near Corona; flagstone plant at Redlands; old
well in Chino; Strain's Camp at Mt. Wilson.
Locations: Aptos; Cannon oil
field; Capitola; Elmira; Hollister; Panorama Hills; San
Bernardino County Several photographs in Santa Fe Springs, Los
Angeles County: views of faults; examination of creek where
citrus fruit spray oils polluted water and gave effect of oil
seepage. Later in album, group at "Santa Fe Springs Well"' -
"Reed, Tevis, Morrow, Kane, Robin Willis." Also Tevis-Morrow oil
well and East Santa Fe well. In San Pedro, group examining
Timm's Point and Pliocene bluff and fosseliferous beds.
Others of note: Pg. 115: portrait
of Arnold (1948). Pg. 135: Dr. Cliff Wood. Pg. 156: Susan K.
Branner, age 93, widow of John C. Branner of Stanford
University. Also Arnold's daughter Elizabeth ("Betty"), her
husband and baby; Arnold's daughter Winninette (Jr.) and
husband, Dick Noyes.
Utah and unidentified
Oil wells, oil workers, in photos labeled "River Bend, June
21, 1947." Other various photographs of mining claims: "Turtle
Claim," "Rainbow Vein and Rainbow Camp," "Crow Vein," "Black
Virgin camp, "Gilbert mine," "Rising Sun Claim." "Country Boy
Claim" - descriptions of ore veins, rock and oil
saturation.
Box 61
Ser. 9/ Volume 6. California and New Mexico, 1949-1950
Physical description: 212 photographs. 4 photographs found inside album.
Note: Film negatives exist for 141 prints in this album: pgs.
14-31, 33-44, 55-57, 69-86, 99-111, 114-115, 123, 128-129, 131-153,
156-159, 161-163. Negatives are housed separately in Box 83.
California
Almost all photographs in Southern California, primarily oil
scouting and groups investigating land. Some views of people,
oil wells or well sites. No mining views.
Oil field in San
Bernardino County, with Martin Van Couvering and W. H. Decius
standing next to well site marker. Also "Hesperia well of Dr.
Justice and Flemming" and group of Arnold, Hart, Scoggins, and
Dr. Justice. Other well sites shown: Percy Oates project near
San Francisquito Creek; new drilling rig at Adelanto; A. P.
Lantz in front of Lantz oil well; siting of new well in Chino;
oil seepage at Chatsworth Reservoir; Richfield Co. wells and
fault lines in Ventura County; oil scouting in Kern County.
Other views in Los Angeles County show: "Ralph Arnold well on
Rose Ranch," and sinking ground and faults nearby; oil well at
Rosamond Lake, and Calabasas Well, showing well and mud pit
covered with oil. Also Anthony Lawrence Fault and people
gathered at Lawrence Ranch for drilling of oil well; Belvedere
Structure and "old gas well."
Others of
note:
Pg. 94: "House near Orcutt Canyon in which W.
W. Orcutt [petroleum geologist] was born." Pg. 157: "Mallory and
Marsh" at Marsh well, Mojave Desert. Also many views and
descriptions of topography in Santa Paula and Santa Clara River
Structure.
New Mexico
La Joya ranch house of Gen. Tom Campbell and topography
investigation views in desert.
(Personal)
Arnold's daughters and their families: Walter "Bud" and
Elizabeth "Betty" McKee with their children and other family
members. Dick and Winninette (Arnold) Noyes and baby, Eric, in
New York and Michigan. Pg. 86. Portrait of fossil collector B.
H. Bean in Le Grande, Iowa.
Box 62
Ser. 9/ Volume 7. United States,
1950-1951
Physical description: 328 photographs. A few notes and photographs found
inside album: "Healy" drawing oil from well in Goodsprings, Nevada, and
oil operations in Ridgeway, Colorado, 1947-1948.
Note: Film negatives exist for 239 prints in this album: pgs.
1-23, 25-28, 30-32, 34-63, 65-66, 68-89, 91-107, 110-111, 126-135,
138-147, 150-163. Negatives are housed separately in Box 83.
Arizona
Views and descriptions of topography, faults in Tucson.
California
Almost all photographs in Southern California, showing oil
production, details of oil in troughs and ditches, rock
formations, topography, and groups of people at sites. Views
include oil wells in Agoura; Palmdale; Simi Valley; Justice
Flemming Well in Hesperia; Apple Valley ("high grade oil"); the
Sears well in Cajon, with a group portrait of "Clark, West, Mr.
and Mrs. Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Hart, Earl Johnson"; Standard Oil
Co. well in Carrizo Plains. Views in Los Angeles County include
topography in Calabasas and Ventura; the King well at Rosamond
Lake (dry) and Ann Arnold's well (Ralph Arnold's sister?) at
Sand Canyon (pg. 22 shows a group of women called "interested
stockholders" at the well site.) Many views of Ann Arnold and
others at Placerita Canyon site "Delano 80 acres" (Los Angeles
County) at drilling site for new well. Also Hammon Oil Co. rig
in Towsley Canyon; a ceremony erecting plaque in Midway Field,
Kern County, that says "First Gusher - Midway Field." Pg. 102:
Ralph Arnold at "high grade oil seepage" along San Andreas Fault
in Palmdale; Western Gulf Oil Co. well and camp at Oak Canyon.
Views and descriptions of parts of the San Gabriel Fault in Sand
Canyon, Placerita and Delano. Ventura County - "Dorn lease" and
well of Western Gulf Oil Co. Limestone quarry of
Cadiz-Danby-Chubbock, San Bernardino County.
Florida
John Culbreath and Hugh Culbreath at "old O'Guinn well" in
Tampa. Portrait of Gen. Avery D. Andrews at his home in Winter
Park: "Was a friend and classmate of General Pershing and was
president and manager of operations of the Shell Company of the
United States during the period I finished the work in South
America." Pg. 79: Mr and Mrs. Albert J. Johannsen.
Nevada
(Small number of photographs) Good Spring (i.e. Goodsprings)
oil well - man named Healy. (See also loose photos in folder).
Topography of Arden Dome, Las Vegas and one wildcat well (pg.
87).
Utah
Begins p. 60. Zion Park Anticline and Virgin River Oil
Field.
(Personal)
Arnold's daughters and their husbands: Elizabeth "Betty" and
Walter "Bud" McKee, and Winninette and Dick Noyes. Also: Alumni
event with Stanford University president Wallace Sterling and
wife, 1951. Alumni identified: Ned Sewall, Thomas G. and George
Crothers, Harry B. and Jackson Reynolds, Leland Cutter, Tom
Storke, Billy Q. Wright, E. H. Nutter, Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Branner.
Box 63
Ser. 9/ Volume 8. Colorado, October
1951
Physical description: 17 photographs.
Note: Film negatives exist for 20 prints in this album: pgs. 1-9.
Negatives are housed separately in Box 83.
Ridgeway, Ouray County - descriptions of topography,
mountains, valleys in fault zone.
Box 64
Ser. 9/ Volume 9. California and Utah,
May-August 1954
Physical description: 36 photographs. Label on spine says "Santa
Barbara, 1954."
California (personal)
Three women named Monty Cline, Peggy and Irene Samson at a
cottage in Pine Valley. Views of Arnold at his house and garden
at 3162 Calle Fresno, Santa Barbara.
Utah
Uranium mine called Utex Mine and descriptions of shale beds
around Southern Utah. Pg. 18: Two views of the Atomic Energy
Commission uranium plant and stockpile of uranium in Monticello,
July 30, 1954.
Box 82
Film negatives for some photographs in Series 4, vol. 8 and
Series 9, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5.
Access Information
RESTRICTED. Available with curator approval. Extended retrieval and
delivery time required.
Box 83
Film negatives for some photographs in Series 9, vols. 6, 7, 8.
Access Information
RESTRICTED. Available with curator approval. Extended retrieval and
delivery time required.
Series 10. Lantern slides,
approximately 1905-1915
Physical Description: 365 lantern slides (3 1/4 x 4 in.) + 29 original lantern slide
boxes
Scope and Content Note
These slides are primarily photographs, with some maps and charts, and date
from approximately 1905-1915. They were used by Arnold to accompany his
lectures related to geology and oil exploration. Most are slides of
photographs taken by Arnold that also appear in the photograph albums and
have handwritten numbers and caption information.
Arrangement
The slides have been kept in the order they were received. Most were in
original slide boxes that were numbered sequentially and were marked with
themes such as "Structure," "Surface Evidence," or "Reservoirs." These
"slide sets" have been kept together, followed by loose slides, which are
arranged by subject matter.
Related Material
See Ralph Arnold papers (mssArnold), Box 132, for copies of Arnold's lectures
given at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Massachusetts
School of Technology, 1914-1916. Some of his lecture notes say "with lantern
slides" under the title, though it is unclear which slides were used for
which lectures.
Examples of Arnold's lecture titles: "Oil Reservoirs (with lantern slides),"
April 6, 1915; "Relation of Geologic Structure to Oil Deposits," April 8-9,
1915; "Surface Evidence of Petroleum and Its Significance," April 12-13,
1915.
Box 67
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 1
Structure (9 items)
Puente Hills District and Kern River Field, California (1910); Baja
California, Mexico; unidentified
Slide set 2
Origin and Miscellaneous (5 items)
Midway field, California (1910); unidentified
Slide set 3
Surface Evidence (7 items)
Sunset District, California (1908); unidentified
Slide set 4
Structure (10 items)
Packard Ranch, California (1911); Huasteca oil fields, Mexico;
Trinidad; unidentified
Box 68
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 8
Production and Location of Wells (7 items)
Coalinga, McKittrick and Sunset districts, California (1908); Mexico
oil fields; unidentified
Slide set 9
Production and Location of Wells (6 items)
Ventura County, California (1911); Trinidad (1911)
Slide set 10
Structure and Surface Evidence (4 items)
Coalinga Syndicate Oil Co. and Fullerton field, California;
unidentified
Box 69
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 11
Production and Location of Wells - [illegible] Technology (7
items)
Perforating machine (1914); Coalinga, Midway, Sunset fields,
California (1912); unidentified
Slide set 12
Reservoirs (6 items)
Dayton and Rocky Arroyo, New Mexico (1913); Panama (1913)
Slide set 13
Structure (8 items)
Midway and Sunset fields, California (1913); Wyoming (1913); Panama
(1913)
Slide set 14
Structure (9 items)
Illinois (1914); Wyoming (1914); Trinidad
Box 70
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 15
Structure (9 items)
Illinois (1914); Calgary, Alberta, and British Columbia, Canada
(1914); unidentified
Slide set 16
Technology (7 items)
Byron dome, Wyoming (1914); Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
(1914)
Slide set 17
Technology (10 items)
San Fernando, California (1915); Lander, Wyoming (1914); Western
Alberta, Canada (1914); Trinidad (1914)
Box 71
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 18
Structure (5 items)
(All maps and charts.) Lander oil field, Wyoming; Puente Hills and
McKittrick fields, California; unidentified
Slide set 19
Reservoirs (6 items)
Pico Canyon and Elsmere Canyon, Los Angeles (1906); Ventura County
and Fresno County, California
Slide set 21
Surface Evidence (8 items)
Coalinga and Midway districts, California; unidentified
Slide set 22
Mud Volcanoes (9 items)
McKittrick oil district, California (1908); unidentified
Box 72
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 23
Production (9 items)
McKittrick, Midway and Sunset oil districts, California (1908);
Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo, California (1908); unidentified
Slide set 24
Structure (7 items)
(Mostly maps and charts.) Coalinga District, California (1907); oil
shales; mud volcano; unidentified
Slide set 25
Structure (12 items)
(Mostly maps and charts.) Spindletop oil pool, Beaumont District,
Texas (1902); Kern River oil field, California; Russia; Peru
Box 73
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 26
Surface Evidence (6 items)
(All maps and charts.) Midway-Sunset oil field, California;
Southwest Pennsylvania; Baku district, Russia
Slide set 27
Mud Volcanoes (8 items)
Salt Creek oil field and Tisdale Anticline, Wyoming (1911); Trinidad
Slide set 28
Surface Evidence (5 items)
(All charts of earth composition data.)
Slide set 29
Production and Location of Wells (6 items)
(All maps and charts.) Coalinga field and Puente Hills oil district,
California; Pennsylvania; Ohio
Box 74
Lantern slides in sets by topic
Slide set 31
Surface Evidence (6 items)
(Mostly maps and charts.) Russia oil fields; other data
Slide set [36?]
Surface Evidence (5 items)
(All maps and charts.) Salt Creek oil field, Wyoming;
McKittrick-Sunset district, California (1908); other data
Box 75
Loose lantern slides, organized by location
California - Coalinga District (6 items)
Landscapes; horses pulling wagons of supplies; Producers
Transportation Co. pump station; California Oil Fields, Ltd. shops,
workers' camps and wells
California - Contra Costa County (1 item)
Standard Oil Co. refinery, Point Richmond
California - Devils Den District (2 items)
Oil workers at camp; Agua Media Creek (1908)
California - Kern County (5 items)
California - Kern River Oil District (4 items)
Group portraits of members of Mining Congress (1910); tank farm of
Standard Oil Co., Kern River oil field; portable engine and boiler.
California - Kings County (4 items)
Kettleman Hills and Kettleman Plains. Views of camps and equipment;
Sunflower Valley.
California - La Brea Canyon District (1 item)
California - Los Angeles (7 items)
Oil delivery wagon running oil into receiving pipe which connects
with boiler room, Van Nuys Hotel, 4th Street, downtown Los Angeles
(1910); Central Los Angeles oil field views [oil derricks next to
buildings and houses, 1st Street and Lake Shore Ave. (1905)]; View
of oil bearing sandstone on Bellevue Avenue (1905); Salt Lake oil
field (1906); Oil derricks among buildings in city; detail of
sandstone near Los Angeles River
California - McKittrick District (6 items)
Landscape views (1908); oil derricks in landscape
California - Midway District (8 items)
Buena Vista Hills; Elk Hills; oil derricks and landscape views
California - Puente Hills District (1 item)
Oil workers with rotary rig
California - San Diego County (1 item)
Pacific Beach sandstone (1905)
California - San Luis Obispo County (3 items)
Palo Prieto Pass; Carrizo Plain (1908); Huge concrete reservoir
built for Union Oil Co. at Tank Farm near San Luis Obispo (1910)
California - Santa Barbara County (3 items)
Graciosa Ridge and Orcutt oil field (1906); Los Olivos; Cat Canyon
Field
California - Sunset District (8 items)
Landscape detail (1908); Lake View Gusher; Sunset oil field (1911)
California - Whittier District (4 items)
Oil wells of Home Oil Co.; Central Oil Co.; Murphy Oil Co. (1905)
California - Miscellaneous (4 items)
Associated Oil Co. pump station and buildings; Santa Fe Railway well
and pumping equipment; Union Oil Co. tank wagon for distributing
crude oil; Ralph Arnold in field clothes examining mud volcano.
Montana (2 items)
Glacier National Park: Oil derrick of Butte Oil Co. and detail view
of an oil seepage (1914)
Washington (1 item)
Seattle Station, view of main plant from end of wharf (1910)
Canada - Alberta (2 items)
Oil billboard advertisement in city of Alberta; view of fault in
Western Alberta
Mexico (11 items)
Colorado River Delta (1912); Casiano; Cerro Azul; Dos Bocas, Cerro
Viejo; Ebano; Huasteca oil fields
Box 76
Loose lantern slides, by location
Trinidad (28 items)
Cedros; Mud Volcano Island (1911); Pitch Lake; mud volcano; craters;
jungle. Also views of orchids and Ralph Arnold collecting orchids in
the field (1914); orchid garden at "Murray home" in Caracas.
Box 76
Loose lantern slides, unidentified.
Unidentified slides, grouped by subject matter (51
items)
Buildings (industrial and residential); landscapes; oil fields and
derricks; people and equipment
Series 11. Glass negatives, chiefly
1902-1904; 3 by photographer William H. Fletcher, 1885-1890s
Physical Description: 183 glass negatives, (5 x 7 in.) and (5 x 8 in.) +
130 original negative envelopes and 60 (later) contact prints.
Use restrictions:
Glass negatives may not be paged except by permission of the Curator of
Photography. There are prints of 60 of the images, which should be paged in
place of negatives when sufficient; see Box 65 at the end of this
series.
Scope and Content Note
It appears most or all of the photographs were made by Ralph Arnold, except
for three photographs of buildings in Los Angeles by Willam H. Fletcher.
Arnold's views show Arnold and Stokes family members in South Pasadena and
scenes from travels in the U.S., Mexico and Central America. Several
universities are shown, including Stanford University where Arnold earned
degrees in 1899, 1900 and 1902.
Dates and identifications have been
taken from handwriting on the negative envelopes, which appears to be
Winninette Arnold's, based on writing samples and the content of some
captions. For example, her father, Frank Stokes, is identified as "Papa" and
an image of Winninette's parents' home in Janesville, Minnesota, has the
caption "where we children were born."
Arrangement
- Arnold family and travel photographs, ca. 1902-1904. (Boxes
77-81)
- William H. Fletcher photographs, ca. 1885-1890s. (Box 81)
- Original negative envelopes. (Box 65)
- Contact prints of 60 glass negatives (Box 65)
Box 77
Glass negatives. Arnold family and travel, approximately 1902-1904
Items (1-32)
Arnold family
Portraits of Ralph Arnold, Winninette Stokes Arnold, Delos and
Hannah Arnold, and two houses: a large house labeled "Arnold home in
Pasadena" and a small house labeled "Arnold Cottage." Another view
labeled "The Shop, May 1903" shows shelves of shells and rock
specimens (Delos Arnold's?). Also Arnold family and friends, family
homes and in New York and Iowa. One view of John Lewis Childs' bird
case, Floral Park, New York.
Items (33-40)
Stokes family
Group portraits of Winninette Stokes Arnold and her siblings, parents
(Frank and Ora Stokes), uncle W. H. Stokes, and other family. One
view of Frank Stokes' house in Alhambra, Calif. Also Stokes family
homes in Minnesota and South Dakota.
Box 78
Glass negatives. Arnold family and travel, approximately 1902-1904
Items (46-68)
Miscellaneous
Exteriors of two different houses and several interior views; "Capt.
Burns" (a man holding chickens); stone church; vase of flowers;
unidentified group at "Boulder Creek Gorge, July 1903."
Items (69-80)
Stanford University
Stanford geologist Dr. J. P. Smith and family at their residence,
Palo Alto. Stanford University campus and buildings.
Box 79
Glass negatives. Arnold family and travel, approximately 1902-1904
Items (81-97)
Pasadena and other California
Several rooftop-views in Pasadena showing houses, streets and
mountains in distance. Item (81) shows the second Raymond Hotel in
the distance (approximately 1904). Also San Gabriel Mission (Oct.
1904); Santa Barbara Mission; Redwood tree, Big Basin, Santa Cruz
County (June 1903).
Items (98-121)
Universities, museums and points of interest, various
states
Campus buildings of Yale University; University of Chicago Geology
building; Marshall Field Museum; Matthew Laflin Memorial, Chicago
Academy of Sciences; Iowa State University Geology building and New
Hall [Morrill Hall]; Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines; University of
Iowa campus building; Grinnell College, Blair Hall; Johns Hopkins
University, Geology building; Concord Bridge; Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston. In New York, Columbia University Library and Geology
building; and Cornell University campus and Geology building.
Box 80
Glass negatives. Arnold family and travel, approximately 1902-1904
Items (122-137)
New York - Museums, landmarks, sightseeing
American Museum of Natural History; horse and carriage stopped in
front of Grant's Tomb; steamship on the Hudson River; West Point
seen from the Hudson River; Milburn House, Buffalo, "where President
McKinley died"; "Old Van Vleck house" near Jamestown, New York; Erie
Canal, Canistota, New York [wooden storefronts and people along
bank]; Lake Chautauqua; New York State Capitol, Albany; Niagara
Falls.
Items (138-143)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Girard College; Independence Hall; Academy of Natural
Sciences; University of Pennsylvania; Wagner Free Institute of
Science. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Library and Museum.
Items (144-157)
Washington D.C. and Virginia
Capitol Building; Library of Congress exterior and interior view of
fireplace in Assemblyman's Reading Room; State, War and Navy
Building [now Eisenhower Executive Office Building]; Smithsonian
Institution and National Museum of Natural History; U.S. Geological
Survey building; Washington Monument; White House. In Virginia,
exterior of Mount Vernon and the gated entrance to Washington's
tomb.
Box 81
Glass negatives. Arnold family and travel, approximately 1902-1904
Items (158-179)
Central America and Mexico
Scenes from one or more trips. Views show passengers on deck of
steamship "City of Sydney" and views of Corinto, Nicaragua and
Isthmus of Panama, on Chagres River. Other locations seen are the
plaza and cathedral in Acapulco, Mexico; scenes in Guatemala City,
Champerico, and Escuintla in Guatemala; the lighthouse and bay at
Amapala Island, Honduras. There are also views of the steamship
"Coptic" leaving San Francisco Wharf, Aug. 9, 1902.
Box 81
Glass negatives. William H. Fletcher photographs, 1885-1890s
Item (180)
"All that remains of the Old San Gabriel Mission, near the
river."
Title hand-lettered on negative. Photograph shows a group of
ruins.
Item (181)
"Lordsburg College"
Title and "W.H.F.-1174" hand-lettered on negative. This building is
now the University of La Verne, La Verne, California.
Item (182)
"Street in Pomona"
Title and "W.H.F.-1182" hand-lettered on negative.
Box 65
Original glass negative envelopes
130 envelopes with handwriting that appears to be Winninette Arnold's.
Box 65
Contact prints of 60 glass negatives
60 photographic prints were made by the Huntington Library staff in the
1980s from the following negatives: 1, 5-13, 33, 36-37, 45, 48-50,
56-59, 69, 73-76, 78-96, 144-151, 153-155, 157, 180-182.
Series 12. Card file of oil companies in California
Box 66
Card file of oil companies in California
Physical Description: 1 box of approximately 250 handwritten file cards, 3 x 5 inches
Scope and Content Note
A file of index cards with names of oil companies, arranged by California
oil districts: Arroyo Grande, Carrizo, Casmalia, Coalinga, Devils Den,
Lompoc, McKittrick, Midway, Monterey County, Orcutt, Sunset, Temblor,
and Misc. Many cards include names and titles of company officials, and
have numbers that may refer to map coordinates or field books; they do
not seem to correspond to the photograph albums.
Series 13. Maps and charts (rolled), 1880-1948
Physical Description: 346 individual maps, charts or diagrams,
approximately 43 x 60 in. and smaller. Related items that were
received rolled together have been kept together.
Conditions of Use
OVERSIZED MATERIAL. Maps are rolled and many are oversize. May require
special handling instructions.
Scope and Content Note
The maps, and some charts or diagrams, are primarily geological, but also
include layouts of mines; tract maps with names of landowners and oil
companies; and land maps showing oil fields and wells. Many were created by
the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.), and others were
hand-drawn.
Arrangement
The maps are arranged geographically, beginning with the United States,
followed by Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, and Venezuela. U.S. maps are
arranged alphabetically by state.
Box 84 (1)
Geologic maps of Grand Canyon, Arizona (undated)
[5 maps] C. E. Van Gundy, geologist.
Box 84 (2)
Structure and topographic maps of Grand Canyon, Arizona
(1927, 1937)
Box 84 (3)
Coconino Plateau, Grand Canyon, Arizona (May 1906, reprinted
1932)
[3 maps] Geologic maps with some penciled annotations. U.S.G.S.
Box 84 (4)
Geologic map and structure contour map of Bright Angel and
Vishnu Quadrangles, Arizona and Algonkian rocks, Grand Canyon,
Arizona (1937)
[3 maps] C. E. Van Gundy, geologist.
Box 97
Geologic Atlas of the United States / Globe Folio (Folio
111) and Bisbee Folio (Folio 112), Arizona. (1904)
Approximately 30 pgs. each. Fragile condition.
California - Amador County
Box 84 (5)
Fremont Consolidated Mines, Amador County, California
(undated)
[2 maps] Surface map and map of underground mine tunnels. Fremont
Consolidated Mining Co., San Francisco.
Box 84 (6)
Mining maps, Amador County, Mother Lode (undated)
[2 maps] Hand-drawn with simple illustrations. Shows mining depths
for several mines, including Fremont mine.
California - Bakersfield, Kern County
Box 95 (7)
Map of Holdings of the Buick Oil Co. (June 1912)
[2 maps] Includes locations of wells and storage tanks. Also one
sheet of well logs showing underground conditions. Surveyed and
platted by A. T. Parsons, civil engineer, Bakersfield, Ca.
California - Coalinga Oil District
Box 84 (8)
Geologic maps and cross sections of Coalinga, California by
Ralph Arnold (1910)
Box 84 (9)
Cross sections of geological composition, property of Inca
Oil Co. and British Consolidated Oil Corp. (Wabash lease)
(1914-1915)
Hand-drawn cross-sections or well logs, showing amount of oil sand.
Coalinga oil field.
Box 95 (10)
Coalinga oil field well logs (1908-1913)
[6 sheets] Well logs for several oil companies with wells in
Coalinga.
Box 85 (11)
Coalinga oil field well logs (1909-1910)
[2 sheets] Associated Oil Co. well logs: "Cross section of Row A,
Section 36, Coalinga, Jan. 1910" and "Cross section of Row 1,
Section 36 and Jefferson No. 1, Coalinga, Nov. 22, 1909."
Box 85 (12)
Coalinga oil field well logs (ca.1910)
[5 sheets] Cross sections showing underground conditions. By Ralph
Arnold, to accompany report of March 1910.
Box 85 (13)
Coalinga oil field well logs (1910)
[6 sheets] All marked "to accompany report by Ralph Arnold."
Box 95 (14)
Coalinga oil field well logs (ca. 1912)
[6 sheets] Fragile condition. Hand-drawn cross sections ("well
logs") of soil composition on graph paper. Sheets titled "Coalinga I
- V."
Box 85 (15)
Coalinga oil field well logs (1913)
[3 sheets] Premier Oil Co.; Wabash and adjoining property; Traders
and Premier property. Includes samples dated 1907.
California - Fresno County
Box 95 (16)
Panoche Area, Fresno County, California / Distribution of
sand bodies, and structure contour map (undated)
[2 maps] C. E. Van Gundy, geologist.
California - Midway-Sunset Oil Field (Kern and San Luis Obispo
counties)
Box 85 (17)
Southeastern part of Midway-Sunset oil field, California
(1945)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary map 30." U.S.G.S.
Box 85 (18)
Topographic map of the Midway-Sunset oil field, Kern and San
Luis Obispo counties, California / Showing underground contours of
the main producing oil sand, drawn from data furnished by various
operating companies in the field... (1910)
Wells, tracts, and "typical logs of wells in various parts of the
field." Shows names of oil companies, landowners, including Southern
Pacific Railroad. U.S.G.S. bulletin 406 by Ralph Arnold and Harry R.
Johnson.
Box 85 (19)
Lost Hills, Kern County, California (undated)
[2 maps] Grid map showing hand-drawn locations of oil wells, names
of oil companies and owners. California Map and Blue Print Co.
Box 85 (20)
Asphalt and Bituminous Sandstone Deposits of part of the
McKittrick district, Kern County, California (1945)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary map 35." U.S.G.S.
California - Kern River Oil District
Box 85 (21)
Peerless Oil Co. well logs, Kern River District, California
(1902-1906)
[3 sheets (set 1)] Charts showing composition of earth below each
numbered well - amount of oil sand; water sand; clay, etc.
Box 85 (22)
Peerless Oil Co. well logs, Kern River District, California
(1902-1906)
Box 85 (23)
Peerless Oil Co. well logs, Kern River District, California
(1902-1906)
California - Kettleman Hills, Kings County
Box 86 (24)
Map showing land survey in the Kettleman Hills, Kings
County, California (1910)
Includes locations of wells drilled for oil; large tables of cross
sections of geological composition of Kettleman Hills. Surveyed by
Erle L. Veuve, Civil Engineer
California - Los Angeles and Orange counties
Box 86 (25)
Los Angeles County and Orange County Ranchos (1924-1936)
[7 large maps rolled together] Tract maps with names of subdivisions
and landowners. Includes Rancho San Pedro, Rancho Santa Gertrudes,
Rancho La Habra, East Whittier Rancho, Rancho Los Coyotes, "Bixby's
Subdivision," Artesia, "Somerset Acres," "New Santa Fe Springs,"
etc. Los Angeles County Surveyors maps.
Box 86 (26)
Seal Beach Oil Field, Los Angeles and Orange Counties,
California (1933)
Tract map showing locations of wells, names of oil companies, wiht
notes in pencil. Inset detail of Alamitos Heights wells. State of
California, Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Oil and Gas.
Box 86 (27)
Map showing the Whittier-Fullerton Oil Field, Los Angeles
and Orange counties, Union Oil Co. of California, Los Angeles (Feb.
1913)
Showing locations of wells and drilling, "producing" and
"abandoned." Primarily a tract map, with names of landowners and oil
company names. Writing on verso says "Puente - Fullerton Field.
Union Oil Co."
Box 86 (28)
Rancho Los Coyotes (June 1, 1936)
[Los Angeles County and Orange County] Hand-drawn tract map showing
landowner's names and wells. "Carmenita" written on verso. Ralph
Arnold, Geologist.
Box 86 (29)
La Puente Rancho, La Habra Rancho, Whittier and Puente oil
fields, Los Angeles and Orange counties, California (undated, ca.
1900s[?])
Tract map with landowner and oil company names, including
"Graham-Loftus Oil Co." and "W. R. Rowland and Associates."
California - Los Angeles and Ventura counties
Box 86 (30)
Geologic Map of Parts of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties,
California (1924)
Contour map showing sedimentary rock types, locations of oil wells.
U.S.G.S.
California - Los Angeles region
Box 86 (31)
Los Angeles Basin Oil Fields (1930; rev. 1936)
Contour map with well sites, tank farms, landowners, oil companies
named. Printed by California Map and Blue Print Co., Los Angeles.
Box 87 (32)
Los Angeles Basin Oil Fields (1930; rev. 1932)
Contour map with well sites, tank farms, landowners, oil companies
named. Large red-ink lines drawn across map. Map wrinkled; condition
fair. Printed by California Map and Blue Print Co., Los Angeles.
Box 87 (33)
Map of San Fernando Valley, La Crescenta Valley, Burbank and
Glendale [Los Angeles County] (undated)
Street map with some handwritten notations.
Box 87 (34)
Geology and Oil Possibilities of Puente and San Jose Hills,
California [Los Angeles County] (1944)
Geology map of oil and gas investigations. Very detailed analysis
and cross section diagrams. U.S.G.S.
Box 95 (35)
Maps of portion of Pacific Terminal (Tract No. 2016), Los
Angeles (1914-1915)
[8 maps] Maps show 7th, 9th, Grant streets; Pacific Electric Railway
line. Includes contour maps and tract maps.
Box 95 (36)
Methwold Villa Tract / Subdivision of New Main Street and
Wilmington Avenue Tract; Eighty-Eighth Drive from Main Street to
point 630 ft. east (1914)
Box 95 (37)
Hacienda Park Sunken Garden Tract, West Hollywood (undated,
ca. 1910s[?])
Promotional real estate map by Hastings Bros. Shows tract bordered
by Fountain Avenue, Sweetzer Avenue, Sunset Blvd. and Olive
Avenue.
Box 95 (38)
Map showing location of buildings, oil wells, etc. along the
boundary line between the leases of the Arcturus Oil Co. and Salt
Lake Oil Co., Los Angeles County (undated)
Box 95 (39)
Map of a portion of Rosedale Cemetery subdivision (undated)
Tract map. (Downtown Los Angeles)
Box 87 (40)
Map of the Dominguez Estate, being a portion of the Rancho
San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California, showing distributing
system of the Dominguez Water Company (1913)
Tract map with names of landowners in Dominguez family.
Box 95 (41)
Map of the Salt Lake Field of the Los Angeles Oil District
(undated, ca. 1900s-1910s[?])
Hand-drawn detail map showing tracts and oil company names, in
vicinity of Wilshire Blvd. and La Brea Blvd. Some names on tracts
are: Rodeo Oil Co., Samuel R. Hancock, La Brea Oil Co., Arcturas Oil
Co. Accompanies report by Ralph Arnold.
Box 87 (42)
Rancho Cienega o'Paso de la Tijera / owned by A. J.
Hutchinson and E. J. Baldwin (June 1880)
Poor blueprint copy - very faded. (Los Angeles County and vicinity.)
Box 87 (43)
Deed for Tract No. 2661 / Being a portion of Lot B in the 8
Acre Allotment to Francisco Machado in the Rancho La Ballona… as
recorded in Los Angeles County records (Sept. 18, 1914)
Copy of Los Angeles County deed with signatures of Ralph Arnold and
Stella Machado as "sole owners of, or interested in, the land…"
Shows small drawing of land along Rose Avenue, bordered by Ballona
Avenue and Lincoln Blvd. [now Venice, California]
Box 87 (44)
Map of Pasadena, bird's-eye-views (1889, 1893)
[3 maps] Lithograph views of Pasadena, 1889 (2) and 1893 (1).
Condition fair to poor.
California - Merced County
Box 95 (45)
Das Palos area, Merced County, California / Surface geology
map and map of proposed oil well locations, seen in cross section
(undated)
Shows locations of drilling for: H. Bergman; Pacific Oil and Gas
Co.; Milham Exploration Co.; E.B. Stone; "Ora Loma no. 1."
California - Monterey County
Box 87 (46)
Map of Monterey County, California (undated, ca. 1910s[?])
Poor condition. Promotional map with halftone photographs.
Box 87 (47)
Geology and oil possibilities of the Salinas Valley,
California (1944)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary map 24." U.S.G.S.
California - Orange County
Box 87 (48)
Map of the Whittier-Fullerton oil fields (undated)
Primarily Orange County with part of San Bernardino County. Shows La
Habra Rancho, La Puente Rancho, townsite of Chino, Bixby ranch,
others. Detailed tract map, with names of landowners and oil
companies. "Puente Hills" written on verso. Compiled and published
by the Oil Age Publishing Co., publisher of "The Oil Age," Los
Angeles, Ca.
Box 87 (49)
Paleocene and Eocene Stratigraphy of Northwestern Santa Ana
Mountains, Orange County, California (1945)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary chart 12." U.S.G.S.
Box 88 (50)
Buena Park Assessor's Map No. 59 (undated)
Tract map. H.H. Henshaw, Laguna Beach written in pencil on map.
California - San Joaquin Valley
Box 88 (51)
San Joaquin Valley Oil Fields (1939)
Contour map with well sites, tank farms, landowners, oil companies
named. Includes geologic data.
Box 95 (52)
Map of Vallecitos Valley Oil Fields (undated, ca. 1910s[?])
Hand-drawn tract map. "John Ashurst's ranch" featured prominently.
Shows well locations, proposed drilling locations.
California - San Luis Obispo County
Box 95 (53)
Cross section of Huasna Region, San Luis Obispo County
(1948)
Shows cross section of well of Hancock Oil Co. Says "to accompany
letter of Aug. 28, 1948 by C. E. Van Gundy."
Box 88 (54)
Map of the County of San Luis Obispo, California (April
1890)
Shows areas of Spanish grant lands, and number of acres sown to
crop, number of livestock, value of real estate. "Carefully compiled
from governmental and county surveys and drawn by Charles W.
Henderson."
Box 88 (55)
Geology of the Bituminous sandstone deposits near Edna, San
Luis Obispo County (1944)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary map 16." U.S.G.S.
California - Santa Barbara County
Box 95 (56)
Summerland Wharf / Illustration of location of oil sands
(undated)
Hand-drawn illustration of clay and oil sand sections under wharf.
Box 95 (57)
Santa Maria oil well logs (undated)
[2 sheets] Shows composition of earth below each numbered well -
amount of oil sand; water sand; clay, etc. Mentions: Associated Oil
Co., Los Alamos Petroleum Co., Palmer wells, Henderson well, Dome
wells, Bell wells, Brooks, Williams.
Box 95 (58)
Map of portion of Santa Maria oil district (undated)
Shows oil lands of Los Alamos Development Co.; Union Oil Co.;
Federal Oil Co.; Todos Santos Oil Co. and others. To accompany
report by Ralph Arnold.
Box 88 (59)
Map of the Santa Maria oil fields, Santa Barbara County,
California (Sept. 1910)
Tract map with names of landowners, oil company names, ranchos, etc.
Excellent condition.
Box 88 (60)
Geology of oil-impregnated diatomaceous rock near Casmalia,
and Santa Rosa Hills-Eastern Purisima Hills District, Santa Barbara
County (1945)
[2 maps] "Oil and gas investigations, preliminary maps 34 and 26."
U.S.G.S.
California - Ventura County
Box 88 (61)
Wiley Canyon and Shiells Canyon, Ventura County, California
(1948)
[6 maps] Hand-drawn topographic maps of oil sands, cross sections of
wells of Hopland Oil Co., Wilshire Annex Oil Co., Oakridge Oil Co.,
others.
Box 95 (62)
Tract maps of parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
(1924)
[6 maps] Mussel Shoal Tract no. 1, Ventura County; La Conchita Del
Mar; San Buenaventura; Rancho Rincon. Most have handwritten names of
owners of tracts.
Box 88 (63)
Map showing improvements on Shiell's lease of Montebello Oil
Co. [Ventura County?] (Jan. 1912)
Sketch map showing oil, water, gas and steam lines, and electric
light poles.
Box 88 (64)
Map of Santa Clara Valley oil fields, Ventura County,
California (1911)
[2 versions, with different markings in pencil] Legend showing
composition of soil. Tract map with landowners, oil companies.
Box 88 (65)
Geologic Map of Coastal Plain and Adjacent Areas / Upper
Santa Ana Valley and Adjacent Areas [Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside
and San Bernardino counties, California] (1934)
"Property of Mr. Aldrich" written on verso. Detailed legends showing
geologic sections and descriptions. State of California, Dept. of
Public Works, Division of Water Resources, South Coastal Basin
Investigation.
Box 88 (66)
Geomorphic Map of California (1938)
Detailed legends. State of California, Dept. of Natural Resources,
Division of Mines.
Box 89 (67)
Oil and Gas Fields of California (1939)
"C. E. Van Gundy" written in pencil on verso. U.S.G.S.
Box 89 (68)
Geologic map of California (1938)
[3 maps] Tables of detailed information about rocks and minerals;
mineral products of California; salient geologic events in
California. State of California, Dept. of Natural Resources,
Division of Mines.
Box 89 (69)
Outline Geologic Map of California showing oil and gas
fields and drilled areas (1941)
Includes index to oil and gas fields by name; historical chart
showing crude oil production of California; significant historical
events; major rock units and their significance to exploration for
oil and gas. Has detail of Los Angeles Basin area, showing "oil and
gas fields proved commercial." State of California, Dept. of Natural
Resources, Division of Mines.
Box 95 (70)
Panorama Hills and West Side Oil Fields and Topography Map
of Temblor Range, California (1919, 1933)
Box 89 (71)
California Oil Fields (1928, 1932; rev. 1934)
Includes Belridge Oil Co., owned by Mericos "Max" Whittier. Well
worn; torn on edges.
Box 89 (72)
California Oil Fields, showing Coalinga, Devils Den,
McKittrick, Midway and Sunset Districts and their respective fields
and surroundings (1910)
Tract map showing names of claim owners. Legend with details of
mineral locations, state selections pending, wagon roads, oil
pipelines, homestake entry pending, etc.
Box 95 (73)
Oil production graph charts for 1909-1912, for six entities
in California (1909-1912)
[6 small sheets] Simple graph charts showing storage, production and
purchases graphed over four years for Associated Oil Co., Kern
Trading and Oil Co., Southern Pacific Oil Co., Union Oil Co.,
Standard Oil Co., Independent Oil Producing Co.
Box 89 (74)
Map of Pipeline Routes between McKittrick, Midway and Avila
Beach, California (Sept. 1910)
Box 89 (75)
Maps showing oil land withdrawals and Naval Petroleum
Reserves [California] (1914-1915)
[2 maps] Primarily central California; includes Kern County, San
Luis Obispo County, Fresno County. Shows locations of pipelines
owned by various oil companies, including Associated Oil Co.,
Standard Oil Co. and Union Oil Co.
Box 89 (76)
Bedford Reciprocating Motion Calcining Furnaces and
Quicksilver Furnaces (undated, ca. 1910s-1920s[?])
[4 sheets] Series of diagrams showing workings of mineral refining
engines. "Testing Plant: International Mercury Corp., Los Angeles"
printed at bottom.
Box 95 (77)
Curves showing production of type wells selected from the
different oil fields of California (April 12, 1910)
Box 90 (78)
Map of State of California (Compiled 1929; edition of 1940)
Box 90 (79)
Map of State of California (1913)
General topographical map, with legend detailing Indian
reservations, forest land, military land, etc. Compiled from the
official records of the General Land Office and other sources.
Box 90 (80)
Map of State of California [Northern only] (1929)
Red pencil marks show locations of oil fields and names of oil
companies. References to locations of "axis of anticlines." Shows
Northern part of state, from Alameda County to northern border.
U.S.G.S.
Box 90 (81)
Map of State of California [Northern only] (1929)
Roughly covers San Jose to northern border. U.S.G.S.
Box 97
Geologic Atlas of the United States / Mother Lode District
Folio, California. Folio 63. (1900)
28 pgs. Fragile condition.
Box 96 (82)
Table showing the classification of Igneous Rocks in the
California Coast Ranges. Accompanied by chart of Correlation of
Rocks, New York - Indiana - Arkansas - California (ca. 1901)
Box 90 (83)
Carter Mine and Cortland Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado
(Dec. 26, 1931)
[3 maps] Includes mine claims and diagrams of "vertical section of
Volunteer and Chloride veins" and "Grand Prize workings." Maps
labeled Exhibit A, B, C.
Box 90 (84)
Carter Mine and Golden Islet Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado
(ca.1931)
[3 maps] Main haulage tunnel; cross sections in Grand Prize,
Chloride and Volunteer veins. Maps labeled Exhibit D, E, F.
Box 96 (85)
The Named Geologic Units of Delaware (1937)
Box 96 (86)
Topographic maps of Appling Quadrangle and Rocky Ford
Quadrangle, Georgia (Surveyed 1917-1918; printed 1920; edition of
1921)
Box 96 (87)
Modern classifications of the Permian Rocks and
Pennsylvanian Rocks of Kansas and Nebraska (Oct. 1936)
Box 96 (88)
Boyes Oil Structure, Great Falls, Montana (undated)
Box 96 (89)
Map of the Banatyne Structure, Teton and Pondera counties,
Montana (1926)
Box 90 (90)
Geologic map of Montana (1944)
[2 sheets] "Oil and gas investigations, preliminary chart 25" in 2
sheets. U.S.G.S.
Box 90 (91)
Properties of Troy Mines Co. at Troy, Montana (Nov. 1929)
[4 maps] Includes chart showing tons of minerals removed by tunnel.
Shows properties, diverted dams, creeks, locations of mines.
Box 97
Geologic Atlas of the United States / Butte Special Folio,
Montana. Folio 38. (1897)
20 pgs. Fragile condition.
Box 90 (92)
Plat showing the main underground workings of the Quinn
Mine, Silver City Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada and map of
Silver City Locations [mining claims] (1880)
Box 90 (93)
Diagrams of Redwing Mercury Mines and Inman Quicksilver
Mines, Lode and Placer workings (March 5, 1940)
Box 90 (94)
Map of the Horseshoe Mining Co.'s Property, Fay, Lincoln
County, Nevada (1902)
Hand-drawn. Mines marked: "Horse Shoe No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4,"
"Bryan" and "Bryan Extension." Underground tunnels and shafts
detailed. Very large/long map.
Box 91 (95)
Townsite plat and cyanide plants (mining) of Fay, Lincoln
County, Nevada (ca. 1902)
[3 maps] Mining plants in Fay, Nevada. Ground plans for cyanide
plants of the Horseshoe Gold M. and M. Co. and the Shawmut and
Nevada Gold M. and M. Co., in Fay, Nevada.
Box 91 (96)
Forests of Northern New Jersey and relation to principal
watersheds (1900)
[6 sheets forming one map; and one related map] Very fragile -
tearing down middle. Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Box 91 (97)
Preliminary Map Showing Geologic Structure of the Southern
Part of the San Juan Basin, including parts of San Juan, McKinley,
Sandoval, Valencia, and Bernalillo counties, New Mexico (1933)
Contour map with detailed legend. "Compiled from results of field
investigations, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931." U.S.G.S.
Box 91 (98)
Sectional Map of Colfax and Mora counties, New Mexico (1889)
Compiled from the original plats in the Surveyor General's office at
Santa Fe, New Mexico and from private surveys by the Maxwell Land
Grant Company.
Box 91 (99)
Map of Dayton Oil Region, Eddy County, New Mexico (undated,
ca. 1900s-1910s[?])
[5 maps] Includes 3 small plat maps. Shows land of Dayton Petroleum
Co.; Pecos Oil and Gas; Seven River Oil Co.; American Oil and Metals
Syndicate.
Box 91 (100)
Map of Prospective Oil Region West of Carlsbad, Eddy County,
New Mexico (undated)
[3 maps] Includes oil landowners Dan McFarland and Charles Mau.
New Mexico, Arizona and Utah
Box 91 (101)
Correlation of Basal Permian and older rocks in Southwestern
Colorado, Northwestern New Mexico, Northeastern Arizona, and
Southeastern Utah (1944)
"Oil and gas investigations, preliminary chart 7." Accompanied by
U.S.G.S. report by N. W. Bass, 1944 (20 pages).
Box 91 (102)
Structure contour maps of oil fields of Oklahoma (1913-1915)
[4 maps] Includes Osage lots 169-172, Wolverine Oil Co., Tulsa; The
Boston Pool (area around Arkansas River); Untested dome near
Muskogee. Includes 4-page explanatory memo signed by Fohs and
Gardner, consulting geologists.
Box 96 (103)
Maps and charts in matter of lawsuit over Phillips-Egermeier
lease, 160 acres. (1937)
[9 small sheets] Detail maps show areas drilled for oil, 1931-1937.
Also mentions I.T.I.O. Little lease [Indian Territory Illuminating
Oil Company, Osage, Oklahoma?].
Box 96 (104)
Oak Mine, near Grant's Pass, Oregon (1930)
Includes 4-page survey summary by mining engineer, 1929.
Box 91 (105)
Geologic map of Tennessee (1915)
Detailed legends and tables. State of Tennessee, State Geological
Survey.
Box 91 (106)
Geologic maps of gas field in Utah and Wyoming and
cretaceous formations in Texas (1945)
[2 maps] Geologic and structure contour map of the clay basin gas
field and vicinity, Daggett County, Utah and Sweetwater County,
Wyoming. Second map titled "Correlation of lower cretaceous
formations as revealed by deep wells in east and south Texas."
U.S.G.S.
Box 94
Topographical and Geological Atlas of the District of the
High Plateaus of Utah / To Accompany the Report of Capt. C.E.
Dutton, U.S. Ordnance Corps, Assistant Geologist (1879)
Material Specific Details: Folio has been rolled and is difficult to lay flat.
Requires special handling.
[2 copies] 2 pages + 10 leaves of plates (sheets loose in covers).
New York: Julius Bien, lith. At head of title: Department of the
Interior. United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the
Rocky Mountain Region, J.W. Powell in charge.
Box 96 (107)
Map of Lander Oil Field, Wyoming, with sections (1911)
Map shows oil field within Shoshone Indian Reservation. Contour map.
Torn, very fragile. E. G. Woodruff, U.S.G.S.
Box 96 (108)
Geological maps and cross section data of Wyoming oil fields
(undated)
[7 sheets: 2 maps and 5 cross section sketches of geological
composition] All say "to accompany report by Ralph Arnold." Includes
map of Lake Valley Oil Field, Carbon County; Lander Oil District;
Byron Garland District, Bighorn County; Ohio Oil Co., Garland
District.
United States and North America
Box 91 (109)
Glacial Map of North America (1945)
[2 sheets that form one map.] Legend and footnotes. Geological
Society of America.
Box 96 (110)
Geology of the 49th Parallel by R.A. Daley (ca. 1912)
[16 sequential sheets numbered 2-6, 9-17] Dated based on date of
Daley's published work, "Geology of the North American Cordillera at
the 49th Parallel" (1912), Ottawa, Government Printing Office,
Canada. Sheets say "Reprinted by permission of chief astronomer to
accompany Geological Survey Memoir 38."
Box 91 (111)
Outline Map of the United States (Oct. 1934)
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington D.C.
Box 92 (112)
United States Oil and Gas Fields in 1913 (Map dated 1910)
[3 sheets form one map] Has red and green marks indicating gas and
oil locations. Fragile (Very similar to no. 113)
Box 92 (113)
United States Oil and Gas Fields in 1913 (Map dated 1914)
[2 sheets form one map] Same as (no. 112) except map dated 1914. Oil
and gas fields marked in red and green on map. (Very similar to no.
112)
Box 96 (114)
United States contour map and base map (Dec. 1896; reprinted
April 1904)
Box 92 (115)
Geologic Map of the United States (1932)
[4 sheets form one map] Detailed legends. U.S.G.S.
Box 96 (116)
United States, showing Principal Meridians, Base Lines and
Areas Governed thereby (1915)
Box 96 (117)
Tertiary deposits of the North Pacific Coast and adjacent
portion of Vancouver Island by Ralph Arnold and Harold Hannibal
[5 sheets] Very detailed.
Box 92 (118)
Survey and Geological Maps of Canada (1891-1912)
[10 maps] Geological Survey of Canada.
Box 96 (119)
Geological maps of portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan,
Canada (1914)
[7 maps, plates 1- 7] Includes cross section tables of rock "with
special reference to oil" and showing "prospective oil territory."
Box 92 (120)
Map of Oil Fields of North Veracruz and Vicinity, Mexico,
Oil Commission (1919)
Trinidad and Gulf of Paria
Box 92 (121)
Trinidad and Gulf of Paria geologic sections (1911)
[2 maps] Geologic sections and base map to accompany report by Ralph
Arnold.
Box 92 (122)
West Indies / Trinidad Island and Gulf of Paria from British
Surveys from 1866-1868
"Extensive corrections 1891 and 1900."
Box 92 (123)
Trinidad and Gulf of Paria / Maps of the Properties of
Trinidad Lake Petroleum Co. Ltd. (1911)
[6 maps] Maps titled Productive Territory, Structural Geology,
underground contours, oil sands, surface geology, etc. To accompany
reports by Ralph Arnold.
Box 92 (124)
Topographic plan: Perija To Limon, Caracas, Venezuela (Dec.
1914)
Oil wells indicated. To accompany report by Ralph Arnold.
Box 96 (125)
Geologic sections of Perija-Limon district (1915)
[4 maps] To accompany report of Ralph Arnold, July 1915.
Box 93 (126)
Index map of the Limon and Perija Oil Fields (June 1914)
Structural geologic map accompanying the report of Burton W. Clark.
Caribbean Petroleum Co.
Box 93 (127)
Topographic and Geologic Sketch Map of the Perija - Rio
Limon - Maracaibo Region of Zulia, Western Venezuela, and Geologic
map of Guanoco Oil District, Venezuela (1913, 1915)
[2 maps] Compiled to accompany report by Ralph Arnold.
Box 93 (128)
Topographic map of the Macoa Region, Caracas, Venezuela
(undated)
Contour map, hand-drawn. Penciled notes by G. Jeffreys.
Box 93 (129)
Topographic Geologic Map of Region Between Paredones - Rodeo
- Arimpia (undated)
Box 93 (130)
Geological plans of parts of Venezuela: Northern Perija,
Caracas; Cachiri seepages; Rio Tule and Cano Salado (1914, 1915)
[3 maps] Contour maps, hand-drawn.
Box 96 (131)
Key map of the northern part of Venezuela (1912)
From El Plano Militar de Venezuela de 1909.
Box 93 (132)
Map of the Northern Part of Venezuela / Showing oil field
concessions and areas selected by the "Caribbean" and "Bermudez"
companies, and Plan of Mene Grande (1915)
[2 maps] Showing drilling areas; to accompany report of Ralph
Arnold.
Box 93 (133)
Geologic map of Pedernales and Guanipa oil districts,
Venezuela (1914)
To accompany report on the Bermudez Co. and the Caribbean Petroleum
Co. Dec. 18, 1914 by Ralph Arnold.
Box 96 (134)
Parcel maps of plots in Zulia and Trujillo (1924)
[9 maps] "Colonel I. Andrade, Hijo" written on verso. Has names of
oil companies.
Box 96 (135)
Geological cross section data for Guanoco concessions, Pauji
concessions, Maremare concession, Venezuela (1913)
Box 93 (136)
Geological plan of Pauji Region, Mene Grande Field, Caracas,
Venezuela (June 1915)
Box 96 (137)
Sketch maps and geological charts of oil fields in Venezuela
(1915)
[3 maps] Sketch of "areas finally staked out in San Timoteo-Pauji
field"; diagram of Physiographic Development in Region of Rio Misoa;
geologic cross sections in Mene Grande Field. To accompany report by
Ralph Arnold, Feb. 24, 1915.
