F. Oskar Martin papers, 1891-1947.

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F. Oskar Martin papers, 1891-1947.

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This collection contains F. Oskar Martin's personal correspondence, the minutes of the board meetings of the German American Savings Bank of Los Angeles, and paper and photograph scrapbooks documenting his career as a geologist and mining engineer for the United States and for the Union Oil Company. Also included in this collection are clippings documenting his appointment as Consul for Austria in anticipation of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the honorary medal given to him by Austria upon the Games' conclusion. Of especial note are the scrapbooks with photographs of his travels in the undeveloped regions of Colombia and Panama in the 1920s.

3.1 linear ft. (7 boxes)

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8096534

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)

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German American Savings Bank of Los Angeles

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Union Oil Company of California

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Martin, F. O. (Frederick Oskar), 1871-1951

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F. (Frederick) Oskar Martin was born in Mittweida, Germany in 1871. He came to the United States in 1891 after spending several years at sea. Upon his arrival in the US, he worked as a mining engineer and geologist in the mines of Alaska, California, Idaho, and Montana. He studied at George Washington University from 1900-02, worked for the US Departments of Agriculture (1901-05) and Interior (1909-19), and also spent a year working on the Panama Canal. He married his wife, Agnes Elisabeth Riese...