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1935réf. 166742N.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
réf. 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
1900réf. 569Boston 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
1940réf. 29695New York: Standard Oil Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; original tan printed card wrappers; 4170pp. Minor wear else Very Good or better. Standard Oil Company unknown books
1941réf. 13424New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570p. A few small spots to backstrip; mild rubbing to bottom edges of boards else Near Fine. In original dustjacket unclipped but with light overall rubbing and a brief ca 3/4" closed tear to upper margin of rear panel. A very good copy overall. A novel of the Texas oil industry. Somewhat uncommon especially in jacket; this a solid and attractive copy. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books
réf. 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
réf. 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. 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
1865réf. 34056Parkersburg 1865. Printed Broadside 7-3/4" x 11". Old folds Very Good. 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." Not located on OCLC as of October 2020. unknown books
1903réf. 15607Boston: 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
1865réf. 38685Philadelphia 1865. Broadside with a table of the rates of fare on verso. Woodcut illustration of a locomotive. Sheet size: 19 x 8 inches. Extraordinary survival: a railroad broadside advertising a route to America's first oil boom. The first oil well in the United States was drilled by E. L. Drake in Oil Creek Pennsylvania near Titusville in 1859. On the 29th of August oil was struck and the first boom was on. Towns such as Oil City and Pithole sprang up. The Titusville population exploded from 250 residents to over 10000 in little more than five years; Pithole expanded from four log-cabin farmhouses to a bustling city with over 50 hotels over the span of five months in 1865. At its peak the Pennsylvania wells were producing one third of the world's oil. An ephemeral survival of America's first oil rush. unknown books
réf. 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
1900réf. WRCAM49847N.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
1964réf. 37964Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Forest green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1964. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
réf. 288858Humble Oil & Refining Company. unbound. very good. E.M. Schiwetz. Map. Lithograph. 17" x 22". In very good condition. 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. Humble Oil & Refining Company unknown books
1935réf. 1420Wichita: 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
1860réf. 250325Petroleum 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
1865réf. 250221Benninghoff 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
1866réf. 235961Titusville: 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. 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. 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. 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" 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
1887réf. 007198Lockport 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
1921réf. 802Colusa 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
1865réf. 1597Philadelphia 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
1965réf. 37968Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Medium green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1965. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed; moderate soil to boards. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
1954réf. 1607Mystic 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
1950réf. 96Houston 1950. Very good. Map 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. unknown books
1962réf. 38063Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Brown cloth. Gilt lettering to front board. Bound edition for the year 1963; head and heel slightly rubbed; slight insect damage to top of front board. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil Company hardcover books
