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19962090502113709061Not Available 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
193075392Coalinga: n.p. ca. 1930. This small gathering belonged to Stanley Siegfus a mining consultant geologist and engineer whose papers are held at the Huntington Library. It includes:Four panoramic silver gelatin photographs 10 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches of Big Tar Canyon an oil producing region in the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga. In the original envelope from R. W. Richards of the USGSSixteen 3 duplicates original photographs of the oil business in the Tupman oil field.A typed letter signed from R.W. Richards to Stanley Siegfus. It discusses the Big Tar Canyon as well as other oil fields Garza Creek McAdam's well. Written on USGS letterhead and dated June 7 1933. Oil field photographs from the Tupman lease in Kern County CA—acquired in 1920 by the Standard Oil Company. Images include oil derricks rigs company buildings views of the fields etc. n.p. unknown
19373969791937. Unbound. Near Fine. Original painted color illustration on paper. Image size 14" x 7¼" on 18" x 12" artist board. Near fine with some light toning darkening to the tape and bump to corner of the board. A fun pictures of a two headed traffic cop representing the stop and go traffic that Shell Oil's Super-Shell gasoline to designed to combat. The art was produced by an unknown artist who worked the 1940s for the advertising agency Foote Belding & Cone which represented some of the biggest clients in the world. The art is accompanied by two proofs of magazine advertisements produced by the same artist. A wonderfully whimsical ad. unknown
191775579Powell WY: Southern Montana Oil Company. 1917. Original silver gelatin photograph measuring measuring 39 x 10 inches caption in the plate in white. Small stain to the blank upper margin else very good.First of all we have to love this photograph for having a man with his arms outspread placed in the very middle of the image. It bespeaks a person very exalted to be present in a deserted and beautiful landscape. Southern Montana Oil Company incorporated on October 30 1916 and had established offices in Missoula Montana by 1917. All of its directors came from Anaconda a region known for its copper deposits. The directors I.W. Walker A.F. Mavity R.A. Cobban F. Shannon and T.P. Stewart decided to pursue petroleum riches in southern Wyoming.By April 1917 the new exploration company was drilling wells in the Elk Basin oilfield which crosses the state line between Carbon County Montana and Park County Wyoming. The giant Elk Basin field has a dramatic history of its own as noted in First Wyoming Oil Wells. Southern Montana Oil successfully completed a well that produced 25 barrels of oil a day.y November 1917 company manager George L. Means reported to Colorado’s Fairplay Flume newspaper that drilling operations were getting underway on eight 40-acre tracts near Meeteetse Wyoming once a hideout for outlaw Butch Cassidy. Drilling commercially successful wells proved elusive however and by 1921 Southern Montana Oil Company stock was offered at only two cents per share. After the company failed its stock was described in subsequent inheritance litigation as valueless.The photographer A. G. Lucier was one of the first in the area. He opened his photography studio in Powell in 1909. He was later hired by Tex Holms to be the photographer of his famous 18-day tours of Yellowstone Park. He was also published heavily in the local paper the Powell Tribune. He also tried his hand at motion pictures filming 25000 feet of film at the Pine Ridge Agency. For his work in the Elk Basin Columbia University sent him a congratulatory and flattering letter. By 1920 he and his wife had set up a stand near the current Buffalo Bill Visitor's center and sold photographs of the dPark and it fauna andflora to tourists. Southern Montana Oil Company. unknown
1949Nd103004New York: Standard Oil Co 1949-1951. 1st edition. Very Good. folio. hardback in original cloth c350pp. col. & b/w pls. maps diags. Journal of The Standard Oil Co. Notable illustrators commissioned for art work. Incl. issues from January 1949 to November 1951 inclusive Standard Oil Co hardcover
1946K307894Melbourne: Vacuum Oil Company 1946. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. stiff wrappers 64pp. b/w pls. & ills. duotone ills. tables Small close tear to the top of wrappers o/w nice copy Vacuum Oil Company unknown
1931ABC_46004Greece Palestine Iran Iraq Egypt 1931. Oblong photograph album 20.5 x 32 cm. With 72 sepia photographs ca. 6 x 8.5 cm. Album of personal photographs commemorating a journey in 1931-1932 to the oilfields in modern Iran and Iraq by a trio of travellers which included the Reverend Philip "Tubby" Clayton 1885-1972 the founder of the Toc H movement. Several photographs show Galilee Jerusalem Rutbah Wells Ar-Rutbah and about 10 show "fields" mostly the main oilfield at Masjed Soleyman and its gas separator.In 1931 Clayton was invited by the director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company the predecessor of the British Petroleum Company "to inspect the work among the Company units in Persia and the Middle East generally" Harcourt. Accompanied by two friends he travelled by plane train and boat to Lake Tiberias and further by plane to Rutbah Wells a British airfield where the group spent Christmas Eve with British Dutch and German travellers. On Christmas Day they reached Abadan and from there visited the oilfields near Tehran Ahvaz Haftkel Mohammerah Basra and Masjed Soleyman. After a journey to Cairo and Alexandria they boarded an oil tanker for the return journey to Britain. This journey inspired Clayton to plead passionately for improvements to the life of the crews of oil tankers. He described "carrying oil by sea" as "the most lonely job on the world's waters" Clayton. In 1940 he became chaplain of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum's tanker fleet and would subsequently sail on multiple tankers.The photographs must have been taken by Henry Pegg Chappell 1909-1997 since the other members appear he is the only member not present in the photographs and he does not and only Clayton who completed the journey by oil tanker. A carbon copy of a typed list describing all photographs is inserted in the album. Since typed and handwritten additions to the carbon paper refer to Clayton in the third person he probably typed the original list and gave Chappell this carbon copy to insert in his album.With an inscription probably by the three travellers on the title page. Binding slightly worn at the extremities. Paperclip and staple on the typescript rusted. In very good condition.l Clayton "In a tanker" in: The Times 9 March 1932 p. 15; Harcourt The impudent dreamer pp. 216-219. unknown
1948BB.23.032<em><strong>Silver prints 158; 3 x 5 and 7 x 9 inches; Some with identifying locations recto and others with photographer's hand stamp verso.</strong></em> This compelling photo album compiled between 1948 and 1957 offers a view into the rapid development of roadside infrastructure that took place in California during the transformative period of post-war prosperity.<br /><br />As California experienced a surge in car ownership and a growing reliance on automobiles for transportation the need for accessible and conveniently located gas stations became increasingly apparent. The album shows how Associated Oil Company by this time a subsidiary of Tidewater Oil owned by Getty strategically positioned their now-iconic "Flying A" gas stations to cater to the burgeoning market up and down the West Coast. This album presents prospective locations some depicted with realtors' advertising boards scenes of construction and improvements and views of recently completed service stations spanning from the Southern Bay Area to Los Angeles.<br /><br />The album is mostly un-captioned with just a few prints having notations on the rectos but many scenes are identifiable by the signage of local businesses and vehicles or the sharp and visible street-signs. Some identifiable locations include: San Jose Saratoga Los Gatos San Marino Canoga Avenue in Woodland Hills and Nordhoff & Terra Bella Streets in Los Angeles among numerous others.<br /><br />A fantastic album which captures the relationship between changing consumer needs swiftly-increasing land development and the iconic roadside gas stations that have become synonymous with California's roadside landscape.
1987221277Beijing.: 中国粮油学会食品专业学会. Zhongguo liangyou xuehui shipin zhuanye xuehui. 1987. Monograph on wheat milling includes numerous black and white line diagrams and flow charts 116pp text in simplified Chinese characters 26.3 x 19.4cm paper wrapper. Foxing on wrapper and edges but not on inside pages in very good condition. This compliation of materials in Chinese was developed by a delegation of six Chinese specialists who visited Australia in 1987 at the invitation of the Australian Wheat Board. They attended a Melbourne seminar and engaged in technical discussions field visits and on site production and operation trials in Victoria and New South Wales. . 中国粮油学会食品专业学会. [Zhongguo liangyou xuehui ship unknown
192958135Los Angeles CA: California Oil and Gas Association 1151 S. Broadway May Aug.-Sept. 1929. Three vols. 4to. 449-560; 785-896; 897-1024 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams illustrated ads many in colour. Colour-illustrated softcovers photo cover art of oil derricks and McDonald equipment Byron-Jackson Co. Oil Tool Division ads on back covers slight shelfwear very slight bumping minor tears to a couple spines still a VG bright set. First editions of these very scarce issues of this noted California oil industry trade magazine filled with articles and advertisements for oil derricks oil drilling equipment addressing oil drill and oil rigger safety issues oil fires and more. A number of articles focus on the development of the oil industry products for aviation fuels and the aircraft including one article on a trip in the “Rio Grande†Ford Tri-motor owned by the Rio Grande Oil Company. At the time Southern California was producing one-quarter of the World’s oil supply. Few examples of this lavish and expensive serial periodical survive either in institutional holdings or in the trade. California Oil and Gas Association, 1151 S. Broadway, paperback
193561830San Diego CA: Shell Building San Diego Exposition 1935. One oblong atlas folio map. 32 x 22 in. Double-sided colour lithograph pictorial map with inset colour illustrations on verso of History of San Diego fold creases as issued light age toning at fore-edges very minor edgewear w/ original mailing envelope from the “Shell Building†at the CPIE toning to envelope NF/VG- copy mailed to Miss Gladys Buckman 1920-2011 in Long Beach CA from her brother Loren M. Buckman 1913-1995 who at the time was stationed on the USS Northampton CL/CA 26 US Navy Cruiser sunk later in 1942 at the Battle of Tassafaronga repelling Japanese from reinforcing troops on Guadalcanal. First edition of this scarce and beautifully rendered pictorial map celebrating the very successful California Pacific International Exposition held in San Diego over two years at the depths of the Great Depression to revive the Southern California economy which featured a number of unusual concessions and exhibits such as the Gold Gulch Lost Continent of Mu the Zoro Garden Nudist Colony and the “One Ton Mechanical Man.†Several of the exhibits used at the recently closed Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago 1933-1934 were re-used for the CPIE. This map reminiscent of the work of Jo Mora looks Eastward from a high point above the Pacific Ocean depicting San Diego from La Jolla to Oneonta and inland up to Cuyamaca Dam. Many of the buildings developed the architect Requa’s 1881-1941 “Southern California Architecture†style drawing upon the historical architecture of the Colonial Mexico the Pueblos of the Southwest and the Moorish features from Spain and North Africa and preserved the popular buildings which are still evident in Balboa Park. Bloodgood 1896-1989 was an illustrator cartoonist and map maper who produced a substantial body of pictorial maps from 1935-1968 for Shell Oil and the Pic-Tour Guide Series with this one being distributed from the Shell Building exhibit at the CPIE. Worldcat locates 6 copies SFPL U of FL Osher Map Lib. Bancroft UC San Diego Harvard. Shell Building, San Diego Exposition, unknown
192558106Los Angeles CA: Petroleum World Publishing Co. 626 So. Spring St. June-July Sept. 1925. Three vols. 4to. 124; 120; 124 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams illustrated ads some in colour w/ 1 large folding map of Baldwin Hills Oil Field sized 17.5 x 19.5 in. Photo-illustrated colour and black & white softcovers photo cover art of oil derricks and McDonald equipment Hughes Tool Co. ads on back covers some edgewear minor chipping head & foot of spine minor wear to fore-edges still VG set. First editions of these very scarce issues of this noted California oil industry trade magazine filled with articles and advertisements for oil derricks oil drilling equipment addressing oil drill and oil rigger safety issues oil fires and more. Ads for truck companies such as White International Harvester & Herbert Chandler along with oil pumps gasoline service station pumps and more fill the pages. Of additional interest are the several articles directed towards the fallout from the Teapot Dome Scanda the Panamerican Oil Co. Doheny Fall & Sinclair and court decision analyses. The large folding map of the Baldwin Hills Oil Field by Walker Clute and Samuel Perry is quite scarce not only offering a plat map of oil leases and lease holders in the record breaking oil field but coupled with an article touting the Inglewood Oil Field. At the time Southern California was producing one-quarter of the World’s oil supply. Petroleum World Publishing Co., 626 So. Spring St., paperback
19494369Texas: Caltex Oil Company 1949. Original card folding binder; with four sections separately paginated between 14-16 pages respectively. Loosely inserted is a price list from the Vacuum Oil Company of Adelaide dated 1948. Well preserved clean and unmarked. The card binder bears the details of the Australian branch of Caltex but the sectional contents are published by the parent company in Texas.</p> <p>From the preface: 'this aircraft lubrication guide contains complete instructions covering the periodic lubrication of this model of aircraft. This guide does not cover lubrication of various items such as accessories which is performed at the time of major overhaul of each component. The arrangement of this guide is divided into various section of the aircraft such as landing gear power plant etc in order that the work may be subdivided among various groups of mechanics and to facilitate tying in with normal inspection and line maintenance procedures.'. Caltex Oil Company unknown
194010977no place: ESSO / Standard Oil Company 1940. Staplebound. Fair-good. Octavo 32pp. illustrated. A fair to good copy in the publisher's stapled wraps. Page block while intact is separated from the wrappers and laid in. Some stains juvenile pencil writing and chips and short tears to extremities but a complete readable copy. A volume of recipes purportedly by "Aunt Julia" an "Aunt Jemima"-style stereotype of a Black female cook this volume was almost certainly written or compiled by white staff of the Standard Oil Company. A ehite box on the front wrap contains the details of Wisenhunt's Esso Station in Spartanburg South Carolina. Likely these kinds of cook books were sold at various Esso stations throughout the American south and elsewhere. Though probably produced in large numbers we located just a handful of separately listed holdings in OCLC. Though undated there are a few advertising images of automobiles whhich were cetainly produced before World War II. Uncommon. [ESSO / Standard Oil Company] unknown
192549705Pittsburgh PA & Port Arthur TX: Gulf Refining Co. ca. 1925. Folio. 11.5 x 14.25 in. 5 large oversize folding leaves of typed descriptions measurements specifications; mounted 7 linen-backed photo leaves 2 folding -- w/ 39 images printed on 34 silver gelatin photos. Original split-pin post-binder blue silk red cloth corners brass split pins minor edgewear rubbing minor fraying to corners first typed leaf w/ creasing minor closed tears still a VG exemplar from the library of John W. Jackson former Marketing & Sales executive with Gulf Oil Corporation Tulsa OK. This spectacular packaging catalogue for Gulf Oil Company petroleum products in the 1920s provides an incomparable photographic reference for all of the available products their dimensions sizes specific directions about tin lithograph colours as well as the cardboard and wooden shipping crates. Gulf Oil Corporation was initially organized in May 1901 by J.M. Guffy Andrew W. Mellon and others. By 1907 they had built a 400-mile pipeline from Port Arthur to the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma and started refining Oklahoma crude by 1907. By the 1920s this integrated Oil Company had built service stations across the country sold Good Gulf Gasoline and actively promoted automobile travel with Gulf Maps marketing promotions and more. This catalogue begins with photos of 1 5 10 and 25 lb. tins of Gulf Supreme Grease Transmission Grease Red Top Axle Grease Gulf Petrol-atum Gulf High Pressure Grease and Gulf Lubricant with all of the product tins carefully sized by stack showing their side graphics sizes lids and lid configurations. The oil cans include Tractor Oil Auto Oil Harvester Oil Gulf Motorcycle Oil small illustration of 1920s era motorcycle with Gulf Logo and even the blank tin soldered cans of assorted sizes. Of particular interest are the images of all the specialty products Gulf Oil was marketing during the Flapper Era including Venom pesticide & bug killer in glass bottles with screw-top tin lids & corks; Gulf Gas-o-Clenz cans in 1/2 pint 1 pint 1 quart and 1 gallon sizes; Gulf Gleam Cans Gulf Jelly Clens tubes Gulf Grease tubes and more. The last group of photos show all of the varieties of Gulf Venom Jelly-Clenz Gulf Pressure Grease Gulf Gleam cardboard and wooden packaging complete with printed labels lithograph labels Venom hand-sprayers and packaging and crates in assorted sizes and amounts. These types of photographic sales catalogues for the Petroleum industry are quite scarce and often unique items. Gulf Refining Co., hardcover
1957ABC_46260Tel Aviv: Israel Defence Forces General Staff 1957. Folded. 56 x 82.5 cm. Chromolithographic map of the Arabian Peninsula from Turkey in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south and covering Saudi Arabia Egypt Israel Palestine Jordan Syria Lebanon Iraq Iran Kuwait Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman North and South Yemen. Scale 1:5000000. Scale and key in Hebrew inset to top-right inset explanatory panels in Hebrew and English compass rose in Saudi Arabia. Extremely rare Israeli strategic map of the Arabian Peninsula showing oilfields and associated infrastructure. Printed in black red and blue the map demarks the political boundaries of the time along with the areas covered by oil companies concessions. Pipelines form a web across the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula shown in an uncommon vertical orientation while oilfields and refineries large and small are also marked. The IDF probably made the map in responce to the 1956 Suez Crisis and its associated geopolitical shifts. With the Egyptians operating the Suez Canal and the USA forcing Britain and France to abandon their post-imperial plans Israel now counted in both U.S. and Soviet plans for their control of Middle Eastern politics. Britain had to anchor its Middle Eastern influence in Cyprus Aden and Iraq while the increased American influence can be seen in the huge swathe of territory assigned to Aramco. We have located only one institutional copy of this map in the National library of Israel.With traces of pins from former wall mounting. A couple of small light stains some uneven creasing and tears at the edges of some folds and a couple tiny holes where the folds cross. Otherwise in good condition. Israel Defence Forces, General Staff, unknown
19582329Pawhuska Oklahoma: Department of the Interior Osage Indian Agency 1958. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. 8pp including wrappers. Stapled self-wrappers printed in black b&w illustration to front wrapper. Front wrapper toned; corner creased. Postmarked auction catalog for oil and gas leases on Osage tribal land. Such auctions were a regular occurrence dating back until at least the 1920s and regular netted millions of dollars for the Osage tribe. Nevertheless these auction catalogs appear to be quite scarce with only one from 1921 located in OCLC. Department of the Interior, Osage Indian Agency unknown
19014229N.p. 1901. About very good. 12pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Minor edge wear. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for this early 20th-century New Mexico oil venture. The text contains an amusing if dangerous sounding origin story for the company in which the founding officer ignites a brook covered in a "peculiar scum" and spooks his horse. The remainder of the text contains the usual inducements to invest including various descriptions statistics analyses and endorsements. The first commercial well in New Mexico was drilled in the early twenties and we find little additional information on the Eureka Oil Company. One other copy located at SMU. unknown
192556537Chicago IL & La Crosse WI: Standard Oil Company Indiana; Stanolind Record 1925-1929. Two vols. 1st - 4to. 9 x 11.5 in. Approx 120 leaves many added leaves over numbering. mimeographed sheets throughout w/ text illustrations diagrams and decorative lettering with 15 sample sales brochures & catalogues most 12mo. & 16mo. w/ 4 to 24 pp. most illustrated several printed in colour inks and all retaining their original covers carefully tipped-in to their respective sections. Three-quarter black cloth over gray boards post-binder brass split-pin posts at gutter margin occasional minor creasing to a few corners light interior toning still VG copy; together with 2nd -- 8vo. 72 pp. Numerous photo & text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers bound into simulated black calf gilt lettering stamped on front cover rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copies of both from the library of Andrew Edward MacMeekin 1884-1949 who was the purchasing manager for Standard Oil of Indiana at the main offices in Chicago IL from before World War I to his death w/ his ownership stamp on front cover of the Stanolind vol. First editions of these very scarce Standard Oil Company Indiana sales publications by one of the independent oil companies to emerge after the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911. Standard Oil Indiana pioneered the “cracking†process for refining crude oil under pressure resulting in far higher yields of gasoline and the many byproducts and by the mid-1920s was the third largest oil refiner in the U.S. behind Standard Oil New Jersey and Standard Oil California. This very scarce salesman’s advertising manual was created for distribution around the time that Standard Indiana had merged with the American Oil Co. Amoco and was looking to streamline both their purchasing and marketing pitches to service stations wholesalers and jobbers. The manual continually extolls the product diversity and reach of the Standard Indiana Company with Sinclair Dixie Pan-American Petroleum and Midwest Refining as subsidiaries the extensive fleet of oil tankers railroad tank cars and chain of service stations. The splendid sample catalogues encompass a range of styles and products including Red Crown gasoline featuring an Art Deco cover of a Standard Oil service station; the high octane Red crown Gasoline; Neolite kerosene for more efficiently and economically raising poultry; competing motor oils of Iso-Vis and Polarine designed for Ford engines; as well as Mica Axle Grease used to coat hog scratching poles; Merusol Petrolatum White petrolatum used as a non-stick coating for bakeries and with a number of “medical†applications as well or the KIP insecticide used for everything from ants and flies to bed bugs and mosquitoes. Also included are customer sales letters sample thank you letters sales goals tips and more. The second volume focuses on an extended article by MacMeekin on the Standard Indiana purchasing department which at the end of the 1920s was spending over $ 50 million a year on 14000 different items ranging from rare Asian flowers to wax from the head of whales pins by the ton locomotives and everything else to fuel the massive oil company. Detailed list of tipped-in catalogues available upon request. No copies located in Worldcat for Sales Manual very incomplete runs and records for holdings of Stanolind Record BP Archive appears to have an issue as well as Univ. of Illinois but incomplete records and run; See: Mark Wilson Stephen Porter Janice Reiff Standard Oil Company Indiana Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses 1820-2000. Standard Oil Company (Indiana); Stanolind Record, paperback
1948L2EG76GNBQ6GLondon: Brettenhem house 1948. Later cardboard binder. 30 x 23.5 cm. With many reproductions of photographs ground plans maps and cross-sections. Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions accompanied by a map showing their oil fields followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran Iraq Bahrein Saudi Arabia Haifa Israel and Kuwait describing the area's geology oil fields reservoirs and more illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries probably advertisements but the article itself complete some leaves slightly creased otherwise in very good condition. Brettenhem house, unknown
195952165Vancouver BC: Shell Oil of British Columbia On-The-Spot-Photographers Williams Brothers Feb. 1 1959. 4to. 44 pp unpaginated 12 pages on bonded paper w/ signatures 32 pages of two-sided mylar sleeves with white & black paper inserts for photographs with 76 original and studio photographs inserted into sleeves sized from 2.5 x 2.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. nearly all originally glued with adhesive to backing papers but now just laid-in to mylar sleeves a few w/ photographer’s stamps on versos. Original tweed-patterned white vinyl padded 20-ring binder engraved silver plate mounted lower front corner minor soiling shelfwear thumbing to covers occasional creasing on some of the images glue offsetting on paper backing leaves behind the photos still a VG exemplar. This remarkable souvenir photo album documents the safety efforts and operations of the Shell Oil Shellburn Oil Refinery located on Burrard Inlet in British Columbia. Shell’s original refinery was constructed in 1932 but by the end of World War II the Canadian economy’s demands for oil products resulted in a substantial expansion which added thermal cracking distillation stabilization U.O.P. catalytic polymerization of stabilizer overhead gas gasoline refining and gasoline sweetening units. The refinery applied a number of new refining techniques perfected during the war to produce high-grade gasoline from high-pour waxy straight-run residue. Gardiner worked not only as public relations and safety inspector for the refinery but also as petroleum engineer. The album begins with large photo by W.T. Davis & F.B. Hughes of On-the-Spot Photographers with Gardiner showing three young girls the details on an oil refinery model which had been developed by Shell and Standard Oil of California in order to promote interest in the petroleum industry. This is then followed by birds-eye images of the refinery operating on the Burrard Inlet in the 1950s earlier images before and after expansion after World War II executive offices oil workers in frigid temperatures with icicles hanging off the equipment in the background large Shell Oil safety sign recording how many days since last industrial accident in the refinery in 1954 as well as awards ceremonies and banquets. Of interest is a particularly nice image towards the end of a Shell Oil Executive fronted with large Shell advertising sign and behind large architectural rendering of 1950s Shell service station with signage and Shell Oil tanker pulling into the station. A few of the photographs were by Donn and Warner Williams the Williams Brothers who served as aerial photographers in the R.C.A.F. during World War II and then established their Williams Bros. Ltd. Commercial Photo lab in 1948 in Vancouver BC. On-the-Spot Photographers operated by W.T. Davis and F.B. Hughes from 1945-1955 maintained studios at 520 Sixth Ave. and later 2124 London St. in New Westminster British Columbia. See; Shell Canada Shellburn Refinery Construction Projects Fluor; Rick Erickson Williams Brothers Mining Fishing Logging Thru the Trapdoor Exhibition 2014; Jim Wolf Royal City: A Photographic History of New Westminster 1858-1960 pp. 174 184 191. Shell Oil of British Columbia, On-The-Spot-Photographers, Williams Brothers], unknown
1922303664Bakersfield California Kern County Chamber of Commerce 1922. 1922. 6 panel folding brochure. Illustrated with 10 halftones and one map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Includes information on oil and gas wells farming irrigation gold and silver. Rocq 2431 - located only 1 copy. No Binding. Very Good. Bakersfield, California, Kern County Chamber of Commerce [1922]. unknown
1923L2FB7C8EALK3London: His Majesty's stationery office 1923. Contemporary red cloth paper title-label on spine. 6 works in 1 volume. Compilation of publications on the worldwide resources of gypsum strontium molybdenum silver and "petroleum and allied products" and its mining industry in the period 1913-1919. Written two decades before the discovery of oil the Middle East the last and longest publication describes an almost unrecognizable oil production. "It will be noted that the United States and Mexico together produced over 87 per cent. of the world's output in 1921 " p. 13. Under the header "Arabia" follows one of the shortest descriptions only stating that "Indications of oil are known on the Farsan Islands in the Red Sea where drilling has been unsuccessful. On the Persian Gulf coast of Arabia indications of oil occur in the neighbourhood of Basra and near Koweit. A deposit of asphalt is known on Bahrein Island" p. 185.With the spine slightly discoloured and the front hinge somewhat worn; a very good copy. His Majesty's stationery office, hardcover
1950112102Hobart: H.H. Pimblett Government Printer 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hobart H.H. Pimblett Government Printer 1950. Octavo vi last blank 214 pages with several tables plus 2 large folding maps a map of Tasmania and one of the Latrobe-Quamby Bluff Shale Oil Fields. Wrappers slightly creased and lightly marked at the rear; tiny tape repair to the stub of one map; slight crease to the blank bottom corner of most leaves; an excellent copy. Tasmanian Department of Mines Geological Survey Mineral Resources Number 8 Volume 2. H.H. Pimblett, Government Printer paperback
1931112099Canberra: H.J. Green Government Printer 1931. Fine. Canberra H.J. Green Government Printer 1931. Foolscap folio 118 pages with the last 18 pages containing 36 plates from photographs. Stapled through the left-hand margins with a plain rear cover of thin card as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 161 of 1929-30-31; one of 830 copies printed. The author was 'Geological Adviser to the Commonwealth Government'. H.J. Green, Government Printer unknown