Aramco-Jubail

File — Box: 2, Folder: 8

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Typical pearl diving dhow near Jubail, April 1935

Photograph number 2: Khalil (right) with his crew mending field tents in the entrance to the Jubail campground, May 1934

Photograph number 3: Looking from inner space toward the front (and only) door, workman carrying empty food bowels from one of the field camp to be loaded and carried back by airplane, about April 1934

Photograph number 4: View from the top of our campground sleeping quarters, looking north across the town of Jubail, April 1934

Photograph number 5: ARAMCO's or CASOC's first Electric Power House Switchboard, 2-3,000 watt Kohler, 32 volt generators were the supply, April 1934

Photograph number 6: CASOC's first air filter (the two cans stuffed with glass wool) and forced ventilation system. Supplying air to the dark room of the photo lab, April 1934

Photograph number 7: Washing contact prints in the "Photo Lab," Ebrahim left, Abdulaziz right, now a weather contractor to Aramco at Dhahran, probably taken in May 1934

Photograph number 8: "Photo Lab" boys washing contact prints, probably taken in May 1934

Photograph number 9: "Photo Lab" contact prints of aero obliques. Note the fly spray gun, most important thing in the place, probable taken in November of 1934

Photograph number 10: Water Distillation, water stills are inside the shed, upper tanks are raw water, lower tanks (3) are distilled water, about April 1934

Photograph number 11: Fairchild 71 under construction at the Kreider-Reisoner plant at Hagerstown, Maryland, December 1933

Photograph number 12: Airplane nearly completed, December 1933

Photograph number 13: Charlie Rocheville warms up the engine for the first time in Hagarstown in December of 1933

Photograph number 14: Rocheville and Kerr ferried plane to north-beach Flushing (now site of LaGuardia Airport)--folded the wings and delivered it to Merritt Chapman and Scott. This picture shows airplane ready to be place on barge, then transferred to after-deck of the American Export Lines, S.S. Exochorda to be carried to Alexandria. Plane was off-loaded at Alexandria, flown to Cairo, Gaza, Bagdad, Basrah, and Jubail

Photograph number 15: A landing in the desert near the town of Nta (west of Jubail) April 1934. Rocheville, Burchfill and Henry leaning on the tail-group at left. Henry and Burchfill crew of man and soldiers take advantage of the shad of the wings (right)

Photograph number 16-17: Used airplane engine being loaded on a Ford V-8 pickup about June 1935, to be returned to Pratt and Whitney Company at Hartford, Connecticut (via Qatif and Bahrain) for major overhaul. As far as I know, this box, A-1, was the first box of any kind to be "exported" by CASOC.

Photograph number 18: Group at Jubail H.Q.--from left: Rocheville, Kerr, Hoover, April 1934

Photograph number 19: Group at Jubail H.Q.--from left: Henry, Burchfill, Miller, Dreyfus

Photograph number 20: Dining Room at Jubail about February 1934--from left: Burleight, Mountain, Koch, Brown, Dreyfus, Steineke (note the electric fan) 32 volts

Photograph number 21: Group at Jubail H.Q.--from left: Koch, Brown, Henry, April 1934

Photograph number 22: Typical Pearl Diver off Jubail, April 1935

Photograph number 23: Group in Ameer of Jubail Mejlis--from left: Koch, Gerow, Miller, Mountain, Steineke, March 1935

Photograph number 24: Henry (center) and Hoover (left) preparing to leave Jubail with their field party on move down Jebel Dhahran to make the detailed geological survey of Dammam Dome

Dates

Early 1900s-1980s

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.