The cruise of the Caucasus : photograph album with text of geologists' tour of California oil fields, 1911.

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The cruise of the Caucasus : photograph album with text of geologists' tour of California oil fields, 1911.

The six-week tour (by land, in spite of the title) visits numerous oil fields and land developers in California.

1 album (c. 50 photographs)

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California Oil Fields, Ltd.

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Dahl, Arthur L., 1880-1952.

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Dahl appears to be the author of the rather funny captions, and Ralph Arnold is probably the photographer. Accompanying them on the tour are Tom Watson, Maurice B. Blake (both guests from England), Francis E. Young, and A.P. Hammon (working for the Alaska Commercial Co.). From the description of The cruise of the Caucasus : photograph album with text of geologists' tour of California oil fields, 1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384479 Arthur L. Dahl held various posit...

Young, Francis B.

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Watson, Tom, 1950-

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Arnold, Ralph, 1875-1961

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Ralph Arnold was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on April 14, 1875. His father, Delos Arnold, was a lawyer and Iowa state senator who became interested in the study of fossils after the discovery of crinoids fossils in LeGrand, Iowa. The Arnolds moved to Pasadena, California, in 1886, and Ralph attended both Pasadena High School and Throop Polytechnic School (now Cal Tech) before receiving his B.A. in geology and mining from Stanford in 1899. He continued at Stanford to complete his M.A. (1900) and ...

Natomas.

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Hammon, A. P.

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Blake, Maurice B.

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Alaska Commercial Company

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The Alaska Commercial Company was founded shortly after the purchase of Alaska in 1867. Beginning as the Russian-American Company, the company assets were purchased by Hayward M. Hutchinson, William Kohl, and Associates, who then formed the Hutchinson, Kohl & Company. In 1868 the company was reorganized as the Alaska Commercial Company. The company, in its various permutations, played a singularly important part in the history of Alaska with trading stations scattered throughout southwestern...