Reminiscences of Jean Paul Getty : oral history, 1974.

Biographical Note

Oil executive.

Scope and Contents

Family background; childhood; personal life, travels abroad; experiences in oil business; Mission Corporation and Tidewater Oil; World War II aircraft factory; general comments on business and work; art collecting; J.P. Getty Museum; tour of Sutton Place; world oil shortage.

Subjects

• Art--Collectors and collecting.
• Art museums.
• De Chair, Somerset, 1911-1995, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Executives--United States--Interviews.
• Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Petroleum industry and trade.
• World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies.

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