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General Petroleum Corporation - Office Building

Description

Location: 612 S. Flower Street between 6th & Wilshire, Los Angeles, California

Job #: 675

Architect/Designer: Wurdeman, Walter ; Becket, Welton

Photographer/Artist: "Dick" Whittington Studio ; Roger H. Zachary ; Art Streib Studio

Format: Photographic prints

Description: Progress shots and interior details; also known as the Mobil Oil Building.

Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
July 2, 1947 - March 1, 1949
Call number
photCL 454
Creator
P.J. Walker Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Fred C. Walker Jr., 1989.
Associated people
Curlett, Aleck, (1883-1963,)
Becket, Welton, (1918-1987,)
Beelman, Claude, (1883-1966,)
Bowen, Oliver G., (-1987,)
Clements, Robert, (1902-1973,)
Clements, Stiles Oliver, (1895-1946,)
Cleveland, Ron, (1872-1967,)
Coate, Roland E., (1894-1972.)
Crawford, Rowland H., (1871-1936,)
Denman, C. K., (1885-1962,)
Derrah, Robert V., (1864-1942,)
Farquhar, Robert D., (1879-1960,)
Heitschmidt, Earl T., (1903-1980,)
Hobart, Lewis P., (1888-1969,)
Johnson, C. Raimond, (1886-1969,)
Johnson, Reginald D., (1895-1945,)
Kaufmann, Gordon B., (1861-1935,)
Kelham, George W. (1904-1982,)
Lewis, P. P., (1894-1945,)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, (1901-1986,)
Lunden, Samuel E., (1903-1949,)
Martin, Albert C.,
Matcham, Charles,
Montgomery, Ross Gordon,
Munson, Arthur C.,
Parkinson, Donald B.
Parkinson, John,
Rible, Ulysses Floyd,
Roller, Albert,
Ruoff, Allen,
Shelton, Jesse M.
Stone, Edward Durell,
Taylor, Edward Cray,
Wing, Kenneth S.,
Wurdeman, Walter,
Associated organizations
Morgan, Walls & Clements,
Abbott, Merkt and Company,
Albert C. Martin and Associates,
Allison and Rible, Architects,
Austin, Field and Fry,
Bechtel Corporation,
Claud Beelman & Associates,
Clement Chen & Associates,
Cram and Ferguson,
Faxon, Gruys and Sayler, Architects,
Hamm, Grant & Bruner,
Harley, Ellington & Day,
Hunt and Chambers, Architects,
Langdon and Wilson,
Leach, Cleveland & Associates,
Parkinson, Powelson, Briney, Bernard & Woodford,
Pereira & Luckman,
Schultze & Weaver,
Taylor & Barnes,
Walker & Eisen,
William L. Pereira and Associates,
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