Reminiscences of Jean Paul Getty : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Jean Paul Getty : oral history, 1974.

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Family background; childhood; personal life, travels abroad; experiences in oil business; Mission Corporation and Tidewater Oil; World War II aircraft factory; general comments on business and work; art collecting; J.P. Getty Museum; tour of Sutton Place; world oil shortage.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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American oil tycoon and art collector Jean Paul Getty was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 15, 1892 to George Franklin Getty (1855-1930) and Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher Getty. Around 1906 the Getty family moved to Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty eventually persuaded his father to shift the focus of the family petroleum business to the Los Angeles basin. Beginning in the early 1930s Getty lived in a house he built next to William Randolph Hearst's on the beach in Santa Monica. During Wo...