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Records, 1884-2005.

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The Union Oil Company of California was a major petroleum producer, refiner, and marketer incorporated in Santa Paula, California, on October 17, 1890. The company, later reorganized under the Unocal Corporation, remained one of America's oldest and largest independent enterprises, with operations throughout southern California, the United States, and Southeast Asia, up until its 2005 merger with the ChevronTexaco Corporation. Photographs, negatives, and employee publications comprise the bulk of the collection, but the records also contain early field and gauge reports, financial ledgers, correspondence to and from the company's founders, lease and stock agreements, annual reports to stockholders, speeches and remarks by company executives, films, and various memorabilia.

90 boxes (45 linear ft.)52 cartons (52 linear ft.)68 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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