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1902370Chicago 1902. Very good. Folded broadsheet 28 x 18.75 inches with several photographic reproductions. A couple of small separations along folds. A very scarce promotional from the early Wyoming oil boom. The Chicago firm of Charles O. Richardson here urges potential investors to "Get in at Bed Rock" and in particular promotes Richardson's interests in the Spring Valley Wyoming oil fields. Both sides of the large broadsheet reproduce numerous newspaper articles reporting new oil strikes across the state most in the area of Evanston with the dates and locations of the articles added in manuscript. Serious efforts to find oil began in Wyoming after statehood in 1890 with the first major oil boom not hitting until 1908; the present broadsheet therefore represents a rare and fascinating advertisement for the early industry in the state. OCLC locates only three copies at Yale the University of Oklahoma and SMU. unknown books
1943540Venezuela 1943. Very good. 48 original photographs each 8 x 10 inches. Quarto. Plain leather boards twin-bolt binding. Some photos detached from mounts some wear to covers but images generally fine with typed captions affixed beneath each photo. A rare photographic document of Venezuelan oil production in the early 20th century. This album contains nearly fifty large-format original images that depict the construction of a 157-mile crude oil pipeline from Las Mercedes Del Llano Guanico to a deep-sea terminal at Pamatacual in 1943 by the Sociedad Anonima Petrolera las Mercedes owned jointly by the Texas Company later Texaco and British-controlled Caracas Petroleum S. A. Venezuelan oil reserves attracted foreign investment as early as 1908: "In 1908 General Juan Vicente Gomez took power to become the strongest dictator of the 20th century with 27 years in office. He opened the gate to foreign oil investors.World War I was the trigger introducing Venezuela into the world oil market. After 1919 the investment and the exportation of Venezuelan oil increased tremendously. By 1922 Venezuela became an important supplier of oil in the world and biggest reserves of oil were discovered in the Lake of Maracaibo. During World War II Venezuela was the most secure provider of oil to the United States." -- Johannes Alvarez and James Fiorito Venezuelan Oil Unifying Latin-America. Venezuela increased its production 42 percent in 1943 and 1944 to satisfy the Allied demand for wartime oil. The images contained in the present album show various features of the pipeline oil wells and storage facilities at the inland stations as well as the path of the pipeline through the jungle to the sea. Several photos depict groups of men at work on the line in several locations. Another series of images depict views of the terminal station and the construction of its structures as well as its shipping facilities and the operations surrounding the loading of tankers there. From a research perspective this album is a fascinating look into the development of the now-critical oil industry in a lesser known region of mid-20th century Venezuela the involvement of American in this case Texan companies in South American industrial growth as well as the importance of South American resources to the United States war effort during World War II. We were unable to find any examples of large format photographs from the Venezuelan oil industry from this period in auction records or on the market. Photographs of Venezuelan oil production from outside of the Lake Maracaibo region where the bulk of early oil development occurred are equally difficult to locate. The printed title page suggests that more than one of these albums was produced but we are unable to uncover another example in OCLC or archived sales records. unknown books
194172764Washington: GPO 1941. Paperback. Good. 382p. No separate wrapper. 24cm. First leaf creased at corner and has a few small chips Backstrip browned. "Printed for the use of the Special Committee." Also included is a folded copy of the separate brief five-page Preliminary Report by the Committee issued on September 11th 77th Congress. 1st Sessions. Senate Report No. 676. <br/><br/> GPO paperback books
1986149439Budapest: ICPS 1986. 38p. 8x5.5 inch wraps booklet faintest signs of age or handling. ICPS H-1415 / Documents on the struggle against chemical weapons volume II. ICPS unknown books
19321450Various places mostly Texas Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia 1932. Overall good plus. Eighty-five typed and manuscript letters including thirty mimeographed copies of a form response. Moderate chipping and wear to a few letters most previously folded but otherwise in strong condition. A fascinating collection of correspondence relating to spurious Depression-era claims on the famed Beaumont estate of Pelham Humphries 1810-1835. In 1834 Humphries a colonist in the disputed lands along the US border with Mexico filed a claim for a league some 4428 acres of land to the west of the Neches River a few miles south of what is now Beaumont in Jefferson County Texas. The land a patchwork of swamp and grassland good only for grazing was deemed valueless until oil was discovered there in 1901 by which time it had become known as Spindletop and the area became the epicenter of the Texas oil boom. <br/><br/>No one made more money than William Perry Herring McFadden 1856-1935 a rancher who had bought Spindletop in 1883 but ownership of the land was in dispute when he made the purchase. Humphries had died in obscurity possibly killed in a gunfight or perhaps hanged for stealing horses and there was no clear transfer of title. The first suit over the Humphries Land Grant was filed in 1880. McFadden purchased the rights of both parties in the suit but later claimants argued that neither had had a legitimate interest. When geologists stuck oil hundreds of people discovered their fortunate genealogy as a story swiftly spread that the heirs to the Humphries estate were due a share in the profits from the great companies that extracted oil from Spindletop. Numerous lawsuits followed beginning shortly after the discovery and continuing through the 2010s some extending over decades and involving thousands of claimants.<br/><br/>After one such suit entitled Anderson v. Lucas was settled in 1906 the Humphries story appears to have been forgotten for several decades before it emerged again during the depths of the Great Depression. Humphries reportedly hailed originally from Tennessee and in October 1931 the Knoxville Journal reported that members of the Humphreys family were gathering in Madisonville Tennessee to discuss their options. In November another meeting was held in Knoxville drawing over 200 attendees. Responding to the growing number of inquiries sent to his office W. T. Blackmon the Jefferson County Clerk wrote to the Knoxville Journal to set the record straight - "the Humphreys have absolutely no chance of getting $40000000 worth of oil land" the Journal summarized. "And so far as he is concerned he had rather hear no more about it. . He informed the Journal that he had quit opening letters from the Tennessee Humphreys." But Blackmon's letter had no effect. The next day the paper ran a piece in which Oscar Humphrey a stringer for the Associated Press voiced his suspicion at the clerk's response and urged people to fight for their millions.<br/><br/>The documents present here constitute Blackmon's file of inquiries from various Humphries claimants and their representatives all dated 1931 to 1932. A defiant letter here from Oscar Humphrey encloses clippings from the Knoxville Journal and informs Blackmon that "You may rest assured that I am going to have these stories reproduced in other papers in several cities in Tennessee and Georgia." The bulk of the archive consists of over fifty letters containing requests and claims from eleven states including Tennessee Virginia Kentucky Louisiana and Texas as well as the District of Columbia suggest that Humphrey's threat was not an idle one. Some of the letters are a few typed lines and comprise simple requests for information while others are handwritten and run on for pages with elaborate descriptions of the supplicant's claims and genealogy. Also present are carbon copies of general Blackmon's response which he adapted as a mimeographed form letter as well as copies of two more personalized . To dissuade inquirers from further correspondence his form letter notes that a full abstract of the survey of claims to Spindletop would cost "about $2500.00." Additional material here suggests that this may have been side scam Blackmon had with Earl Singleton the proprietor of the Jefferson County Abstract Company. At any rate the fresh rounds of claims on Spindletop delineated here came to nothing and Blackmon gave up his duties as County Clerk and accepted a new position as tax assessor and collector for Jefferson County the pursuit of tax delinquents perhaps seeming a restful occupation by comparison.<br/><br/>An excellent collection of documents detailing one episode in the long saga concerning the rights to the Spindletop fortune. unknown books
19291995Wichita Falls Tx: Montgomery & Ward 1929. Very good plus. Large blue line map approximately 22 x 29 inches. Folded. Very light tanning and a few small spots of soiling. Scattered contemporary pencil annotations. Unrecorded map showing the extent of mineral rights held in a section of Wilbarger County Texas by the Zenith Oil Producing Company and several competing interests. The county is located in North Texas on the border with Oklahoma west of the oil rich areas surrounding Wichita Falls and Burkburnett. Indeed the land here was mapped by a civil engineering firm from Wichita Falls Montgomery & Ward certainly not to be confused with the famed mail order and department store business. The Zenith Oil Producing Company for whom this map was created owned mineral rights in seven contiguous plots in the charted region but seems to have been active only for a short period of time at the end of the 1920s and solely in the area of Wichita Falls. We locate no other copies of the present map and only one other recorded example of a map by the Montgomery & Ward firm a 1931 plan of Wichita Falls. Montgomery & Ward unknown books
19301996Fort Worth: Oil City Map Co 1930. Very good. Large blue line map 34.25 x 27.5 inches. Folded. Scattered contemporary pencil annotations. Minor wear and a couple of short separations along fold lines. Small cut into neat line near upper right corner. Rare and detailed oil map of the oil fields in Shackelford and Callahan Counties just east of Abilene Texas. The map indicates the locations of well being drilled those producing gas wells dry holes and abandoned wells. The owners of the mineral rights are named and well as many of the surface owners which include various railroads and also the Lunatic Asylum. Deaf & Dumb Asylum Bayland Orphan Asylum and other institutions. A large number of the producing wells both oil and gas were owned by Texas Company Texaco the Magnolia Petroleum Co. but many major and small oil companies had obtained mineral rights on lands in the area when this map was produced. The area around the town of Moran as indicated by the number of wells in the vicinity was one of the major sites of oil production in Texas during the 1920s and was indicative of the spread of the oil business to the western and southern portions of the state during that decade. The publishers of this map the Oil City Map Company of Fort Worth were not particularly prolific -- we locate six examples of their other cartographic work all recorded in single institutional copies and no copies of the present map. Oil City Map Co unknown books
195096Houston 1950. Very good. Map 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. unknown books
288858Humble Oil & Refining Company. unbound. very good. E.M. Schiwetz. Map. Lithograph. 17" x 22". In very good condition.<br/><br/> A map of Texas showing the locations of 39 historically significant buildings. Verso provides an extensive list of historically important structures many of which are not shown on front as well as text that gives an overview of architecture in Texas.<br/><br/> Humble Oil & Refining Company unknown books
2008191436Krishna Books Incorporated 2008-12-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Krishna Books Incorporated paperback books
1939213762San Francisco: State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas 1939. 46p. 6x9 inches preface reports tables maps graphs and cross-sections several folding very good first edition annual in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Special articles on Canal and Strand Oil Fields Arvin Area of Mountain View Oil Field and Premier Area of Poso Creek Field. State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas unknown books
1902106482<p>Rectangular 8vo 9½x5¼" pamphlet 1 11 leaves printed on rectos only original brown paper wrappers red ribbon tie at top. A little normal aging but otherwise near fine. This is an early Standard Oil piece that appears to be designed to promote the stock which according to this brochure consisted of only 2500000 shares. At the time of publication the par value was only $1 per share. The brochure discusses various oil field potential and on the inside back cover is a "no wild cat" illustration hyping the stock. This was printed well before the 1911 breakup of the company for violating the "Sherman Antitrust Act." A wonderful piece of corporate memorabilia. OCLC locates only a single copy at the University of Wyoming.</p> books
1927910Whiting In 1927. About very good. 119 leaves printed on rectos only; interleaved with fifteen additional leaves containing pasted brochures and ephemera. Small folio. Original half cloth and boards brad-bound; one brad lacking. Cloth worn hinges tender. Light soiling and wear to contents. Wonderful mimeographed handbook produced for and distributed to bulk station operators of Standard Oil of Indiana a subdivision of the original Standard Oil trust. Standard Oil of Indiana covered a broad territory ranging across Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota the Dakotas Iowa Kansas and Missouri. The first three leaves draw the reader in: "Stop! Look! Read! / YOU can make more money / This book show YOU how. Let's you and I read it over very carefully and see how it can help us." There follows a page discussing "What is a Salesman" and a discussion of the products Standard offers and why they're the best. Each page is printed with illustrations and a small amount of text -- easy to comprehend like a children's book and certainly designed to be used in one's sales pitch. Bulk station operators were charged with maintaining large storage tanks of gasoline or oil distributing large shipments of product to farmers and other small-scale businesses across the Midwest. This particular book belonged to agent Alf Anderson of Viroqua Wisconsin a remote village on the eastern end of the state near the borders with Iowa and Minnesota. In addition to Standard's iconic brands of fuel and motor oil such as Red Crown and Vis operators like Anderson were also charged with marketing a wide array of additional products made by Standard many of which are advertised in the brochures pasted to the additional leaves within this volume. These include Eureka Harness Oil Eureka Belt Dressing Cream Separator Lubricant Mica Axle Grease Neolite Burning Oil Perfection Kerosene KIP Insecticide and more. A mimeo production chock full of sales tactics and tips for the enterprising agent with the promise of success as reward for careful study. Rare with unique components. unknown books
1935166742N.p.: Standard Oil Company of California 1935. 20.4 cm pp. 1-16 not paginated 30 illustrations including one on the front cover 1 map printed in green and black throughout pictorial self wrappers stapled. First edition. A promotional booklet presented as a "souvenir from the the California Pacific International Exposition San Diego 1935." Yosemite National Park is described and pictured on page 4 and Sequoia and General Grant National Parks are described and pictured on page 5. The map is titled "Map showing locations of national parks and national monuments in the West." A very good copy. #166742 Standard Oil Company of California unknown books
194029695New York: Standard Oil Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; original tan printed card wrappers; 4170pp. Minor wear else Very Good or better. Standard Oil Company unknown books
196238063Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Brown cloth. Gilt lettering to front board. Bound edition for the year 1963; head and heel slightly rubbed; slight insect damage to top of front board. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil Company hardcover books
196437964Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Forest green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1964. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
196537968Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Medium green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1965. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed; moderate soil to boards. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
197059679NY: Rand McNally 1970. 4to pp. 112. Bound in pictorial boards with color photos throughout. A very good copy. Rand McNally unknown books
193115471931. SOCONY OIL COMPANY NEWSPAPER 1931. TOURS AND DETOURS. An original August 15 1931 edition of "Tours and Detours"- a tourism-related newspaper issued by the Socony Oil Company to its customers. This issue contains articles about touring the Northeast region of the United States with photographs and articles on Clinton NY; Buffalo & Niagara Falls NY; and Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. The rear cover contains a road map of main highways in New England. Following the break-up of Standard Oil in 1911 the Standard Oil Company of New York SOCONY was formed along with 33 other break-off companies. In 1920 the company registered the name "Mobiloil" as its trademark and in 1963 it became the Mobil Oil Company. Very Good usual folds with a few tears. Scarce 10.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
194113424New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570p. A few small spots to backstrip; mild rubbing to bottom edges of boards else Near Fine. In original dustjacket unclipped but with light overall rubbing and a brief ca 3/4" closed tear to upper margin of rear panel. A very good copy overall. A novel of the Texas oil industry. Somewhat uncommon especially in jacket; this a solid and attractive copy. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books
18651597Philadelphia 1865. Still very good. 411-14pp. Original printed wrappers. Light dust soiling to wraps. Moderate tanning and light foxing internally. Unrecorded report that documents the first annual shareholder meeting of the Noble & Delamater Petroleum Company which took place on April 10 1865 the day after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The pamphlet presents the current financial circumstances of the company delineates levels of production and revenue over the past year and presents the by-laws of the company. The Noble well was one of the most significant and famous early bonanzas in the oil country of northwestern Pennsylvania. The well was first bored on farm land leased by Orange Noble and George Delamater in 1860. It produced no oil for three years until the decision was made to drill deeper at which point the well turned into a gusher producing thousands of barrels of oil per day for the next two years. By the time this public company was formed production was declining rapidly and according to contemporary reports the well was in the process of being closed up by the end of 1865 with both Noble and Delamater having sold their interests in the company. An excellent document of a famous episode in the early oil history of Pennsylvania. books
186538685Philadelphia 1865. Broadside with a table of the rates of fare on verso. Woodcut illustration of a locomotive. Sheet size: 19 x 8 inches. Extraordinary survival: a railroad broadside advertising a route to America's first oil boom.<br/> <br/>The first oil well in the United States was drilled by E. L. Drake in Oil Creek Pennsylvania near Titusville in 1859. On the 29th of August oil was struck and the first boom was on. Towns such as Oil City and Pithole sprang up. The Titusville population exploded from 250 residents to over 10000 in little more than five years; Pithole expanded from four log-cabin farmhouses to a bustling city with over 50 hotels over the span of five months in 1865. At its peak the Pennsylvania wells were producing one third of the world's oil. An ephemeral survival of America's first oil rush. unknown books
1892613N.p. but likely Pennsylvania 1892. Good. 28pp. Folio. Original black half sheep and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn boards worn. Several leaves cut away with later French funeral notices pasted in on stubs. Ledger recording transactions for several companies and individuals extracting oil in Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1892. The ledger records the name of the company listing the date and then barrels of crude and refined oil "sound" and "broke." Named parties involved in the extraction include James Stewart Aetna Oil Co. Miles Stitt Crew Levick Co. Jos. Kelly & Co. James Harding and others. Several have street addresses listed below their names which would allow for firmer identification with some research. Notations are occasionally in French and taken together with the funeral notices pasted in at the front of the volume we surmise that the owner of the ledger may have been Francois Poulard of Philadelphia to whom one of the notices is addressed. unknown books
19351420Wichita: Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co 1935. Very good. Large blueline map 40.75 x 47 inches. Rolled. Some excess blue ink along bottom edge. Light wear at edges. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scattered neat contemporary manuscript annotations. Imposing and detailed oil and gas map showing developments in Kay County Oklahoma bordering Kansas directly south of Wichita. The present map delineates all the oil and gas wells being planned and drilled and all wells actively producing and abandoned. These are several large concentrations of activity the largest being between the towns of Blackwell Braman Dilworth and Peckham northeast of the Chikaskia River with others located near Tonkawa Ponca City and between Newkirk and Kaw. The map also notes land ownership for every section of every township in the county."The oil and gas industry stimulated an economic boom in the early 1900s. As early as 1894 gas had been discovered on the Marcus McClaskey farm southeast of Newkirk. However he kept the discovery a secret until he could prove up his land claim. By 1902 approximately six gas wells had been drilled northeast of Blackwell. In 1910 Ernest W. Marland founder of the 101 Ranch Oil Company drilled seven gas wells on the Millers' 101 Ranch. However the great oil boom in Kay County was precipitated by the discovery of oil by Marland on the Ponca allotment of Willie Cries Crys-for-War in June 1911. Louis H. Wentz soon entered the foray to locate oil in Kay County. The oil boom and bust created temporary peaks in population and several ghost towns such as Mervine Dilworth and Three Sands" - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.Not in OCLC. We locate records for four other maps produced by the Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co. with only one being noted in any appreciable amount of copies. Wichita Mapping & Engineering Co unknown books
