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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
a504511980 Bureau of Land Management. 4to. 285pp. photo illustrations many color foldout maps pin bound wraps 3 holes punched at left margin. Depository library stamp on front and on title page. Residue of label on front. VG light wear. paperback
a49230Washington 1982. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Articles in English or French. 4to. 463pp. photo illustrations diagrams wraps. Depository Library stamp on front a few numbers stamped on title page. VG. . paperback
851ALS. ALS. 2pg. 4 " 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
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. 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
a27099San Francisco 1956 first edition. Matching yellow covers octavo wraps. Vol. 42 No. 1. 120p. No. 2. 200 pages. Both volumes have numerous foldout maps and diagrams. near VG wraps a bit soiled and lightly worn. Maps are in Fine condition. no owner marks. Pair of volumes: . paperback
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. 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
1020991666.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
53032n.p.: privately printed n.d. n.d. 8 3/4" x 4" in pictorial wrappers. 34 pp . 17 pages written in Spanish and 17 pages written in English. An itinerary of a trip from the National Palace to Toluca and the Toluca Volcano followed by information on points of interest. Itinerary of a trip from Mexico to Jalapa via Puebla to Perote and Jalapa followed by information on points of interest. Two fold-out maps printed in green and burgundy . one showing route to Toluca and the other showing the route to Jalapa with points of interest noted on each map. Inset are basic street maps of Jalapa Puebla and Toluca. Light soiling to wrappers and with light rubbing to spine. Also includes 9" x 13 1/2" sheet folded to 8 panels titled "Driving to Mexico Helpful Hints for the Motorist." 2 cover panels and 2 panels showing a distance chart and locations of "Aguila" Gasoline & "Aguilol" Lubricants. Opposite 4 panels offer a map printed in red and green and showing various points of interest along the "Laredo-Mexico City" Road. Soiling throughout panels. privately printed, n.d. 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
18131Dimensions : 447 x 323 mm. Huile signÂŽe signature illisible en marge infÂŽrieure gauche. Travail non datÂŽ rÂŽalisÂŽ circa 1950. Elle figure une vue des basiliques et ch‰teau de Lourdes avec au premier plan le Gave de Pau. PrÂŽsentÂŽe sous cadre. LÂŽgÂres altÂŽrations affectant le cadre. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
63-6754London: John Boydell ca. 1767. Engraving 13.25" x 15.75" with Decorative Border On Paper Mounted on Canvas Good with marginal tears. [London: John Boydell, ca. 1767.] unknown