Guide to the Watkins Glen/Oil exploration photograph album Bernath Mss 473
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2014.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2014 August 8
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.
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[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.
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
Flat-oversize 1
Watkins Glen/Oil photograph album 1930s