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Title: Sloan Flack Papers
Dates: 1919-1951; bulk 1930-1950
Collection Number: 2017_05
Creator/Collector:
Flack, Sloan
Extent: 1 archives box.
Repository:
Sherman Library and Gardens
Corona del Mar, California 92625
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, contracts,
reports, and articles primarily concerning the mining and petroleum industries in
California in the years preceding and including World War II.
Language of Material: English
This collection is open for research.
Property rights to the physical object belong to the Sherman Library. Literary
rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The Sherman
Library do not hold the copyright.
Sloan Flack Papers. Sherman Library and Gardens
The collection was donated to the library by Mrs. William J. (Christine) Shirley,
daughter of Sloan Flack.
Biography/Administrative History
Sloan Flack was a lawyer and investor in Los Angeles, California. The 1941 Los
Angeles city directory lists his office location as 411 W. 7th Street, and he lived
on Genesee Avenue with his wife, Louise.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of correspondence, contracts, reports, and articles primarily
concerning the mining and petroleum industries in California in the years preceding
and including World War II. There are contracts between several mining and smelting
and refining companies which demonstrate the output and prices of various metals,
including gold, silver, lead and zinc, and there are also documents concerning the
cost of ore shipments. Some of these files include materials related to the
productivity and output of the Darwin Silver Mines in Inyo County, California, and
the San Manuel Mines in El Pomo, Sonora, Mexico. There are also materials concerning
various oil production facilities and companies, including those of the Signal Oil
and Gas Company, the Midway Northern Oil Company, and the Kendon Petroleum Company.
Individuals who appear in the collection who were involved with some of these
companies include Samuel B. Mosher (founder and owner of Signal Oil Company), Henry
Workman Keller (owner of the San Manuel Mines in Mexico), and mining engineer
Henning E. Olund. Additional items in the collection include correspondence of a
personal nature.
Silver mines and mining - California
Petroleum industry and trade - California
Lawyers - California - Los Angeles - Archives
American Smelting and Refining Company
Estelle Mines Corporation
Imperial Metals, Inc.
Imperial Smelting and Refining Company
United States Smelting and Mining Company
Kendon Petroleum Company
Signal Oil and Gas Company
Tarr & McComb Oil Company
Utah Ore Sampling Company