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Dutch soldier at Aruba guarding Lago
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Title: Dutch soldier at Aruba guarding Lago ..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: September 1939..Place: Aruba..Description: Negatives from this series were accompanied by a typewritten letter: ''Aruba has been agog with 'rumors of war'. Being the worlds' largest refinery it supplies vast quantities of avation [sic] gasoline to England and France. Consequently apprehension is felt in the event of hostilities. The garrison of Dutch Marines have been greatly enlarged in the last week or so, to guard the hundreds of thousands of barrels of high octane gasoline, stored in Hortonspheroids against possible sabotage. This refinery is operated by the Lago Oil and Transport Co., Ltd. a subsidary [sic] of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Crude oil supplies for the refinery are drawn mainly from the new fields of eastern Venezuela, Lake Maracaibo fields and from Columbia [sic]. Gov. G.J.J. Wouters is in almost daily conference with Lloyd G. Smith general manager of the refinery on interesting matters pertaining to the protection of the refinery. There you have the story behind the enclosed films of a Dutch Marine on the lookout for possible sabotage.'' Excerpt from letter just recieved [sic] from Mr. Richie who is now in Venezuela photographing various phases of oil production there. September 1st 1939. ..Physical Description: 1 negative film: black and white; 13 x 10 cm. ..File: ag1982_0234_2040_04b_aruba.tif .ryr/id/902/ryr/id/902 ) ..View the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Robert Yarnall Richie (1908-1984) worked as a free-lance commercial and industrial photographer for many large corporations including those in the automobile, aviation, chemical, mining, petroleum, railroad, shipping, steel and other industries, both in the U.S. and overseas. The collection, held by Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library, contains corporate and industrial photographs made by Richie from 1932-1975. Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries (CUL) Digital Collections includes the digital libraries and online digital collections from the six Central University Libraries. Our ongoing projects include the creation of digital collections of Mexican photographs, locomotives, Texas history, art, and currency notes, and more.
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