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197661240Flagstaff: Northland Press 1976. Hardcover. x 212p.11.5x9.75 inches landscape layout personal inscription signed by Briggs on endpaper paintings charts foreword bibliography index lightly-used and soiled first edition stated in white cloth boards and price-clipped worn dj with closed tears. Northland Press hardcover books
19091289Oakland 1909. About very good. Six pieces including three real photo postcards typed letter folding map and transmittal envelope. Light creasing to images; light tanning to letter and map. Interesting promotional material for the La Blanc Oil Company for their developments in the Sunset Oil Field in Kern County California in 1909. A folding plat map of the field near Maricopa southwest of Bakersfield shows La Blanc's holdings highlighted in red and a brief text touts the geographical relation to other producing wells. Also included is a typed progress report on the depth of drilling accomplished and the anticipated time before reaching the deposits which assures investors that "No doubt is expressed by any one of our ultimate success." The photo postcards show supposedly representative images of gushing oil pipes overflowing oil barrels and a very pleased group of men overseeing the scene. A nice group with the original transmittal envelope addressed to an Edgar Bonnemort of Oakland. unknown books
1900569Boston 1900. Very good. 4pp. on a bifolium. Quarto. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds and a couple of short closed tears at lower edge. Rare illustrated prospectus for the potentially fraudulent Bernalillo Oil Company based in Boston and San Diego at the turn of the 20th century. The text promises astounding returns stating that "Few in the East appreciate the stupendous nature of this great industrial awakening and the unparalleled opportunity it affords for large profits on even limited investments." The promoters further advise readers to send away for more complete information about the company's holdings and business plans and provides a list of references to contact for confirmation of their bona fides. Strangely despite its extensive endorsement of the oil industry in California the land it advertises is 6400 acres in New Mexico between Fort Wingate and the Navajo Reservation as is the town of Bernalillo. A 1905 article in the business periodical United States Investor cast serious doubt on the venture writing in response to a query about the trustworthiness of the company that "The stocks have no market value and intrinsically they are not believed to be worth more than the paper they are printed on." We locate only one copy at Yale. unknown books
1921802Colusa Ca. 1921. About very good. 8pp. Pictorial self wrappers stapled. Light wear and creasing; a few short closed tears at wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrap. Even tanning. A scarce promotional for the Young Oil Company and its development of an apparently lucrative oil strike at Bear Creek in Colusa County during 1921. The pamphlet prints a story first published in the local Colusa Sun newspaper which documents history of oil production at the site chronicles the purchase of the lease by Young Oil in 1915 and relates positive comments from several contemporary geologists' reports that convinced the company to significantly increase its investment and work on the property including the imminent arrival of an industrial drilling rig from Texas. The remainder of the text publishes a letter from a Sacramento oil man William Babcock which describes the operation as "The best oil venture that I know of -- in fact it looks so good to me that while I have for all intents and purposes retired from active participation in the development of the oil business I shall in this case make an exception." The final leaf prints an enjoinder from the company to "Buy all the Young Oil Company stock you can afford" and gives the organizational information of the firm. Illustrated with five halftone images of the site; not in OCLC. unknown books
50529New York: by the Company ca 1944. 16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 8pp; illus. Very Good. Reprinted from The Lamp. A brief description and prospectus describing Standard Oil's innovative employee retirement plan "the first one in this country to permit an employee to choose one of a number of rates of contribution and thus decide how much social security he wished to build for himself and his family on top of the government program." Such corporate thrift plans helped fuel the boom in postwar prosperity among middle- and working-class Americans. unknown books
199420537NY: Watson-Guptill. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0823032736 . 335 color illustrations. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Watson-Guptill hardcover books
192315067Boston 1923. 8vo pp. 210 little water stained on the foredge affecting the last few leaves a very good copy bound in red cloth. This trade catalogue contains advertisements of and descriptions of a wide variety of hoses and pumps and gaskets as well as hand tools grease guns pipe fitting tools wrenches brushes rulers and files. unknown books
1917291406Self-published 1917. Jamsetji Tata is considered an architect of modern India; he founded TATA -- an enormous Indian business. During the first World War B.J. Padshah one of the Board of Directors of Tata Sons met on board a ship the author of this exhaustive report Edward Thompson. Thompson produced this report urging Tata to get heavily invested in the Copra industry at a time when American investors were investing heavily in copra in the Philippines. Copra proved to a less than immediately successful investement for Tata though Thompson grew rich cf. R. M. Lala The Creation of Wealth: the Tats from the 19th to the 21st Century Chapter 6. ~An uncommon report how could it be otherwise relating to Tatas the most inportant company in India. 179 pp. quarto. Rebacked. Self-published unknown books
1994WN43450Philadelphia: Univ. Of Pennsylvania 1994. An extremely pristine copy in pictorial paper wraps. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of the works of the notorius photographer together with excellent text and essays. . First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Catalogue. Univ. Of Pennsylvania Paperback books
190315607Boston: MacLean Oil & Supply Company 1903. Complaint about some of the Globe Paint Oil sent; signed by company officer; from this Boston supplier of steamship mill & railway needs; with nice vignette of a pile of product barrels; 7 1/4" x 8 1/2" approx. size; light wear old fold lines; very good condition. Very Good. MacLean Oil & Supply Company unknown books
188464746Lockport NY 1884. Single sheet folded. 21 cm. 4 pp. of text printed on yellow paper. An illustration on the first page shows the different sizes of the Gargling Oil offered by the company the product suitable "for man or beast." John Hodge Secretary and Manager of Merchant's Gargling Oil advertises the publication of the company's almanac produced with "handsomely lithographed covers larger pages and containing some new departments notably the one indicated in its title- that of Dream and Fate." Dealers are offered copies of the almanacs shipped free of charge for distribution to their customers. Printed on the two internal pages are card samples to choose from allowing for the name and address of the dealer to be printed on the almanacs ordered. The final page requests the dealer fill out shipping directions. This copy is unused. Merchant's Gargling Oil was created by Dr. George Merchant of Lockport New York in 1833 according to an article written by Doug Farley director of the Erie Canal Discovery Center in 2008. Although it was called a 'gargling oil' it was primarily intended for external use as a liniment. The city of Lockport was located along the route of the Erie Canal and Merchant's liniment found a market with the canallers and their horses and mules. By the time John Hodge joined the company in the late 1850s it was a very successful enterprise. He was a master at marketing and advertising producing almanacs notebooks circulars and placing ads in numerous publications for his product. see a brief biography of the company in the Atwater catalogue Vol. 2 p. 48. <br/><br/> unknown books
1887007198Lockport NY: Merchant's Gargling Oil Co. 1887. 32 pp. advertising pamphlet for Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment for horses. Features one popular song's lyrics no music at top of each page with advertising at bottom each page. Color lithographs front and rear wrappers by G. H. Dunston Lith. Buffalo N. Y. 1887 calendar verso front wrapper. Very Good wrappers soiled small corner creases. RARE Worldcat has no listing for this title . . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Merchant's Gargling Oil Co. Paperback books
19361182Los Angeles: Brooks Bros 1936. Very good plus. Blueprint map 21.5 x 18.25 inches. Old fold lines minor wear. A few pencil annotations. An interesting and quite attractive blueprint map that shows the oil and gas fields of New Mexico where oil was first discovered in 1924. The map was compiled and drawn by Fabius and Sam Brooks Los Angeles publishers and was based on a 1931 map by Dean Winchester and "corrected to date" likely in the mid-1930s. The map shows the locations of oil and gas fields across the state and delineates sites of oil drilling their proprietors and the depths at which they hit oil or gas. Also included are the routes of major gas and oil pipelines. At the lower left corner of the map is a list of principal lease holders in New Mexico broken into tiers by acreage with Standard Oil holding over a million acres and the next group holding 100000 to 500000 each down to 5000 individuals and small companies who hold anywhere from 40 to 5000 acres. We locate a handful of copies of the Winchester map and one copy of a later dated Brooks map with a different title but none of the present issue. A highly attractive and informative New Mexico oil map. Brooks Bros unknown books
851ALS. 2pg. 4 ½" x 7". Feb 1867. Plank Road. An autograph letter signed "Wm H Ostrander" concerning early oil exploration. He wrote to J.E. Lipe: "Sir thinking that you would like to here from me I will drop you a few lines I have my Stone oil the ground so you see I am busy. I have drawed sixty five lodes of stone and will begin to build as soon as the wether sic will admit. John you put any money in an oil well our friend Lathrip has got a lot at Patrolia in Caniday and want to sink a well it is with in Six rods of the flowind sic well at Patrolia that flowes 400 barrels a day and there is no other well near it he thinks a shure sic thing or with very little risk and if he fails is willing to give the company the machinery witch sic is worth a portion of it he divides it in six shares at $500 each you can take a share or a portion of it do as you please. I will try a little for luck if you will take if you will take a share or a portion of it let me know immediately I think that will make the rich come try a little John for luck Mr Lathrip is all right. ". The letter has a light and small stain and is in fine condition unknown books
1865250221Benninghoff Run Pennsylvania 1865. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded some surface abrasion mount soiled. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Benninghoff Run Oil Derricks. Vintage albumen print showing the oil derricks and pump house of Benninghoff Run an important early oil field in Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Valley. The site's Ocean Well dug in 1865 was the first to prove that oil could be extracted from hilly terrain. Benninghoff Run was the scene of violence when teamsters angered over loss of work attempted to destroy the pipeline that comission dealer Henry Harvey built from Benninghoff Run to tanks at the Shaffer railroad two miles away. The right-of-way of the Benninghoff-Shaffer pipeline can be seen in this image as a white streak extending vertically from the fields to the hill in the distance cf. www.petroleumhistory.org. unknown books
19541607Mystic Ct 1954. Overall very good. Approximately 210 individual documents of varying lengths. Light wear. Post-World War II business archive of George Deneke an Old Mystic Connecticut resident who invested heavily in oil and mining operations in the Western United States and Canada. Present here are well over 200 individual documents documents relating to numerous ventures in which Deneke had an interest or for which he had requested information. Included are large group of over fifty documents concerning the notorious Canadian stock scheme Gaspe Oil Ventures Limited which in 1954 the New York state Attorney General called "the largest fraud case in 15 years." Also here are about thirty items relating to the Landowners' Royalties Company a curious husband and wife operation based in Framingham New Mexico that offered wildcat investment opportunities in Montana's Williston Basin of which there is a large and detailed map. Another sizable and attractive map depicts "Oil in the Rockies August 1953" and there is also a fascinating map showing the fields of the South Texas Oil Co. in the early 1950s. A sizable subset of documents provides information regarding uranium mining in Utah which enjoyed a significant boom in the years after the war. With ephemera relating to at least a dozen additional businesses across the West and Canada much with captivating illustrated material. unknown books
1860250325Petroleum Centre 1860. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. 1 vols. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded some surface abrasion mount soiled and worn. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. 1 vols. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Oil Creek. Vintage albumen print of Petroleum Centre Pennsylvania with Oil Creek in the foreground with a few scattered derricks and the town proper on the far bank. Petroleum Centre sprang up in 1861 with the birth of the oil industry in western Pennsylvannia. By 1873 the town was nearly deserted; it is now part of Oil Creek State Park. unknown books
1985343241985. Softcover. VG-- soiling to cover. White wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw and color plates. unknown books
1984258084California: OCAWIU 1984. 1.5 inch diameter pin very good. OCAWIU unknown books
186534056Parkersburg 1865. Printed Broadside 7-3/4" x 11". Old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This is an early report on the development of the petroleum industry in West Virginia. Professor Ward reports on the mineral resources of lands which Mr. Day purchased in Cabell County "Western Virginia." Although navigable waters salt coal and iron have been found in abundance "The value of your lands as OIL TERRITORY is doubtless infinitely above all other considerations. Its situation geographically and geologically is such as to warrant sanguine expectations as to the existence of Oil under all parts of it." Ward describes the "Oil belt" which graces Davy's land and assures him "There is little territory in Western Virginia as yet undeveloped which holds out inducements for finding Oil equal to the value which you own on the Guyandotte."<br/>Not located on OCLC as of October 2020. unknown books
13394New York: Underwood Image depicts several gentlemen standing in front of a a wooden-frame oil rig several others in background; back of mount gives a couple of paragraphs of information regarding the history of the site more; ".Nobody began to realize the immense importance and value of such natural resources.In 1859 the first great 'strike' was made oil being reached only 69 feet below the surface.the beginning of one of the most exciting 'booms' in American Industrial history."; photographer identifier at side of mount not dated title on back in six languages; earlier 'split-image' type of view two separate photos; a couple of identifying numbers: a large "S 127" at top right; the number 5535 is at the title bar position at the bottom of the right-hand image; light wear to card tips edges; very good condition. Very Good. Underwood unknown books
1866235961Titusville: J.A. Mather 1866. 22 stereo cards with printed paper labels on verso titled in manuscript. 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Some wear to cards images near fine. 22 stereo cards with printed paper labels on verso titled in manuscript. 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. A fascinating and important record of the birth of the oil industry in northwestern Pennsylvania.<br/><br/>British-born John Aked Mather 1829-1915 moved to the United States in 1856 and soon after was introduced to photography by an itinerant daguerreian. Mather travelled through West Virginia and Ohio before settling in Titusville Pa in 1860 with his wife. Edwin Drake of the Seneca Oil Company had begun drilling in August of 1859 and Mather was poised to become the oil boom's photographer of record travelling along Oil Creek River on his flatbed studio. Mather's views of wells and rigs were so popular in their time that owners would request Mather photograph their operations to encourage more investment. <br/><br/>The photographs that Mather took make up the largest and most significant pictorial record of the western Pennsylvania oil boom "a record of the first ten years of the industry a coverage without equal in any nineteenth century technology" Darrah The World of Stereographs p. 80. Notably these stereoviews are contemporary to the boom and thus more desirable than Mather's Historical Oil Region Views published in 1895 from the original negatives.<br/><br/>This group of 22 stereo views includes "Oil Seekers Pithole Penn" "Green Mountain Well " "Champion Wells Pioneer River" "RR Bridge & Pioneer from Oil Creek" "New York Well Pioneer" "Lady Stewart & Lady Brooks Pioneer River" "Petroleum Center Penn" "Fishers Shipping Sheds" "Old Shipping Platform Miller Farms" and the humorous "Sunken Fortune or Ruined Man"<br/><br/>See Giddens Paul H. Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania Princeton: 1948. J.A. Mather unknown books
34620Original bust oil portrait 11-1/2" x 14". The canvas is mounted to a 1/2" thick piece of wood held with small nails along the fore-edges. Framed in a later dark brown recessed molded wood frame behind a burnt orange velvet mat with oval opening measuring approximately 9-1/2" x 12". The painting's surface has some usual age cracks and crackling patterns some very small spots where paint has rubbed off along the line of the oval beneath the matting. Very Good. <br/><br/> We can identify neither the subject nor artist. Her dress is of high quality possibly of European design with an empire waist sleeves with large puffs at the top which sit off the shoulders the top line of the dress being a bit demure and cut above the cleavage and nearly straight across with lace trimmed netting leading up to the neckline and ending in a collar. A brooch is placed at the center where the dress material and netting meet. This type of apparel was popular during the early to mid-1800s. unknown books
1900WRCAM49847N.p. perhaps Pennsylvania 1900. Silver gelatin photograph 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches. Mounted to backing board and framed to an overall size of 20 1/2 x 25 inches. Slight silvering of part of the image light edge wear minor chipping to frame. A very good image. A fascinating image featuring eleven men standing in front of an oil rig complete from engine house to the oil derrick the latter extending beyond the frame of the picture. Most of the men are fairly well dressed and perhaps picture the management of the rig or the oil company that owns the rig. Among the better-dressed subjects is a young boy perhaps in his early teenage years. Two of the men are dressed in overalls and are likely the roughnecks for this particular rig. A rare large photograph capturing the early days of the oil business in America. unknown books
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 books
