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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.
2013LFA-126725901Revue d'histoire en Dauphiné : 48 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
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
Very Good Turkish Original b/w folded geological map of Ramandag oil field / area in Mardin and Batman. Oblong folio. (38 x 59 cm). Legends in Turkish; bilingual title in English and Turkish. It shows Raman oil field in Mardin and Batman cities of Southeast Anatolia, and Dicle River (Tigris). on south. Rare.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 191, [1] p., 1 folded huge map (39x75 cm). Tatbikî jeoloji I: Jeolojik harta [sic. harita] alma usulleri. Enver Necdet Egeran was born in Cyprus in 1907. He, High school education in Cyprus, High Mining Engineering in Turkey, the Mineral and Petroleum Geology High Engineering and PhD in the same subject, completed in France. He was sent to France by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He served in the bureaucracy for 25 years, led the Mining and Petroleum exploration and made the first oil available in Raman. After retiring from the state, after being the General Manager of an American oil company for 12 years, he managed his own consulting company for 23 years. Rare. Only one copy in OCLC 850735753 (Istanbul Technical University).
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
18131Dimensions : 447 x 323 mm.
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
63-6753London: John Boydell ca. 1767. Engraving 20" x 17" with Decorative Border On Paper Mounted on Canvas Good with marginal tears. [London: John Boydell, ca. 1767.] unknown
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
188250838N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1882. 1882. 9" x 12" sheet folded to 4 panels. A 4-page promotional flyer for the theatrical performance of Grizzly Adams. Grizzly Adams came West in 1849 and forsook the gold mines for life in the Western and California wilderness where he acquired a legendary reputation for hunting grizzly bears and fending off Indians. Cover panel offers title actors manager etc. as well as printed in red ink on the right side front carries the notice "8th Street Theatre - - Grand Opening Week Commencing Monday September 4th" which would most likely have been 1882. The second panel offers a full-page advertisement for Merchant's Gargling Oil the company sponsoring the show. Merchant's Gargling Oil is “a Liniment for Man and Beast" a catch-all salve first produced by George W. Merchant a druggist in 1833. The salve was made up of petroleum soap ammonia water oil of amber iodine tincture benzine and water and supposedly would cure anything . burns scalds scratches foot rot on sheep roup in poultry hemorrhoids toothaches etc. Panel 3 offers general information about the play followed by a synopsis for all three acts. The rear panel offers a full-page woodcut illustration showing Adams on horseback rescuing innocent settlers in the wilderness from Indians. 1 1/2" closed tear to fold and with a 1" closed tear to side panels. Very good. Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1882]. unknown
1865List2532New York: Wm. A. Pond 1865. Folio 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unusual use of sheet music as satire with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company and states that F.B. Helmsmuller who was actually a noted composer was the “Treasurer and General Manager†of the company. This is a particularly fine example of the piece. In our research we found several references to this piece as being a real stock certificate for a real company however this is clearly a parody of the oil business. This was printed in 1865 when the Pennsylvania oil industry was booming and the engraved illustration appears to show a countryside scene in Pennsylvania or somewhere similar. Four copies in OCLC. Wm. A. Pond unknown
1990282221990 HUILE SUR PAPIER ORIGINALE en COULEURS - (non figuratif ) signée B. GODINET (ANNÉES 90), Format : 26 centimètres de haut par 19 centimètres de large, sur papier gauffré marron-clair, signé en bas à droite : B. Godinet, sans date (1990),
1990282231990 HUILE SUR PAPIER ORIGINALE en COULEURS - (non figuratif ) signée B. GODINET (ANNÉES 90), Format : 19 centimètres de haut par 26 centimètres de large, sur papier gauffré marron-clair, signé en bas à gauche : B. Godinet, sans date (1990),
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