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1984258084California: OCAWIU 1984. 1.5 inch diameter pin very good. OCAWIU 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
197059679NY: Rand McNally 1970. 4to pp. 112. Bound in pictorial boards with color photos throughout. A very good copy. Rand McNally 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
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
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
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
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
1985343241985. Softcover. VG-- soiling to cover. White wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous bw and color plates. 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
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
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
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
