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Max C. Eastman papers, 1944-1964.
BANC MSS 2008/263 box 1
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Title:
Max C. Eastman papers, 1944-1964Creator/Contributor:
Eastman, Max C., 1916-, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Sullivan, John L. (John Lawrence), 1899-1982, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Tully, James., correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Reid, E. C., correspondent.Abstract:
Letters, documents, contracts, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the career of petroleum engineer who worked in the Elk
Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve located in Kern County, Calif. for the Navy and, after his resignation, for the Reserve Oil
and Gas Company of San Francisco, Calif. Letters include those signed by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Acting
Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan. Also includes production graphs for oil and gas finds, stockholder meeting announcements,
and correspondence with Occidental Petroleum. The job history of Mr. Eastman with Reserve Oil and Gas is included from the
first letter inquiring for work until his resignation from the board of directors. The newsclippings detail oil and gas finds
as well as career announcements.
Date:
1944 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caEastman, Max C -- 1916- -- Archives
Forrestal, James -- 1892-1949 -- Correspondence
Sullivan, John L. (John Lawrence) -- 1899-1982 -- Correspondence
Reserve Oil and Gas Company -- Correspondence
Occidental Petroleum Corporation -- Correspondence
Standard Oil Company of California.
United States. -- Department of the Navy.
United States. -- Navy -- Officers
Oil well drilling -- California -- Kern County
Petroleum engineers -- California
Oil fields -- California -- Kern County
Petroleum reserves -- California -- Kern County
Public contracts -- United States
Note:
Max C. Eastman papers, BANC MSS 2008/263, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Transfer; from University of Wyoming Library; 200705.
Transfer; from University of Wyoming Library; 200705.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2007.084--PIC).
In English.
Lieutenant, USNR; engineer in the office of the Inspector of Naval Petroleum Reserves in California; Vice-President of Reserve
Oil and Gas Company.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2008/263 box 1