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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: November 27, 2009
Caption: George O. Suman Memorial Pioneer Petroleum Exhibits Dedication Plaque
Additional Description: This plaque commemorates the re-opening of the Pioneer Petroleum Exhibit Building, originally dedicated in May 1972 as a gift to the Kern County Museum from the Petroleum Production Pioneers.

This plaque also memorializes the fruitful career and good deeds of George O. Suman 1897 – 1981 Associated Oil Co. ∙ Tide Water Associates Oil Co. ∙ Tide Water Oil Co. 1920 – 1962

A petroleum pioneer whose efforts were largely responsible for the Pioneer Petroleum Exhibit Building and the establishment of the nationally acclaimed Pioneer Petroleum Exhibits here in Pioneer Village.

These exhibits are a tribute to California’s oil industry and to the pioneer men and women who made that industry the greatest on earth.

From this day forward, these exhibits will be known as the George O. Suman Memorial
Pioneer Petroleum Exhibits Dedicated June 3, 1988 by the Petroleum Production Pioneers
Plaque courtesy of Robert B. Moss, Jr., Architectural Specialties, Bakersfield, California.
Submitted: December 21, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p90301
File Size: 2.521 Megabytes

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