MINING AND OIL BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 1915

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"MINING AND OIL BULLETIN," SEPTEMBER 1915

Entry/Object ID

2001.117.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Gray "Mining and Oil Bulletin," Volume 1 Number 10, issued by the Chamber of Mines and Oil, Los Angeles, September 1915. The artifact has 26 pages and a gray cardstock cover with the title and the publisher's name at the top of the front. The latter is against a line-drawing of an oil field. The date and price are at the center. A square box is at the bottom and within this are the contents. On the back is an illustrated advertisement for Ingersoll-Rand gasoline extractors. At the beginning of the inside are advertisements and a listing of the members of the Chamber of Mines and Oil. Within the issue are articles on the Union Oil Company of California; engineers' meetings in San Francisco; the Larsson Gold Dredge; geology of the Tom Reed gold road region; July production and oil fields operations; and more. At the end is a purchaser's index. Many black and white photographs are included. The object has abrasions; brittleness; creases; dents; soiling; discoloration; a loose front cover; pencil marks; small stains; and some tears, which make it in poor condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Engineering

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Pamphlets, Chamber of Mines and Oil, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Union Oil Company of California, Oil--Los Angeles County (Calif.), Mineral industries--Los Angeles Country (Calif.), Mining engineering--Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Pamphlets