Rice Institute purchase of interest in Rincon Oil Field
Date
1942-12-18Description
Group of men taking part in an exchange of documents concerning the purchase of interest in the Rincon Oil Field. A large cashier check for one million dollars (payable to the First National Bank & Trust Co. and dated October, 18 1942) is displayed above their heads. Original resource is a black and white photograph.
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Events; William M. Rice Institute; Oil fields--California; Rice University--History
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This image was included in the Rice centennial history book, published with support of the Rice Historical Society. Karen Hess Rogers, Lee Pecht and Alan Harris Bath, "Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures"(College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012), 70Citable link to this page
https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71181Rights
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