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Watkins Glen/Oil exploration photograph album
Bernath Mss 473  
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  • Title: Watkins Glen/Oil exploration photograph album
    Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 473
    Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 0.92 linear feet (1 oversize box)
    Date (inclusive): 1930s
    Abstract: Album with 31 pictures of Watkins Glen, New York, and other locations, many having to do with oil exploration.
    Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library

    Access Restrictions

    The collection is open for research.

    Use Restrictions

    Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of Item], Watkins Glen/Oil exploration photograph album, Bernath Mss 473. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

    Scope and Content

    Album with 31 pictures of Watkins Glen, New York, a few of a tropical location including outriggers, and a wedding party and honeymoon. There are 22 oil exploration photos, including an oil rig being erected, and a pump being pulled by natives through the brush. There is another picture of a US soldier and a man in suit standing with a bay in the background. Two pictures of a baseball game going on (on job site). Twelve photos of shore, with fort or castle. Total of 84 photographs.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Petroleum -- Prospecting
    Petroleum industry and trade
    Watkins Glen (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
    Photographs
    Photograph albums