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Collection
Identifier: 1979-019
Scope and Contents
The papers are divided into two series, Series 1: Business correspondence and documents and Series 2: Personal. Series 1 consists of letters and legal documents relating to oil producers (primarily Wilson Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma), as well as letters from colleagues and financial institutions (primarily City Bank, Kansas City, Missouri). The correspondence relates to a variety of legal suits, claims, and oil and gas leases, filed by various companies and...
Dates:
1910 - 1961
Collection
Identifier: 2000-004
Scope and Contents
The Midwest Refining Company papers consist of annual reports, Wyoming Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and other documents concerning the organization and finances of the company from February 1914 through November 1924. Included are press cuttings dating from Apr 1924-Jan 1928 relating to the Tea Pot Dome scandal in which Henry M. Blackmer, Director and Chairman of the Board for Midwest Refining Company was implicated; and U.S. District and Circuit Court records pertaining to a...
Dates:
1914 - 1928
Collection
Identifier: U54.O45-1942z
Content Description
Possibly unique photo scrapbook prepared for Ralph K. Davies, Deputy U.S. Petroleum Administrator during World War II under Harold L. Ickes. Shows the leading personnel and some propaganda via 130 black and white photographsall with typed identification. The majority of the photographs are large format (6x9, 8x10, etc.). The album is black cloth embossed in gold with Ralph K. Davies name in lower left corner of front cover
Dates:
1942
Collection
Identifier: 1992-003
Scope and Contents
Consists of 37 letters between Dickey and colleagues dating from 1957-1971; bibliography of Dickey's works and drafts of his writings including "The First Oil Well" and "One Hundred Years of Oil Geology" as well as the proposed illustrations for each; an interview (in Spanish) between Fernando Guerrero Matheus and Dickey; research and reference materials which include photographs and a blueprint reconstruction of "Old Pumping Power" on the Holtz Bros. Farrell lease in Grand Valley,...
Dates:
1957 - 1971
Collection
Identifier: 1974-003
Scope and Contents
Consists of 103 photographs (many inscribed to Brazier) featuring early oilmen and businessmen of Tulsa, their spouses, and prominent people from outside the Tulsa area. Collection includes three unidentified group photos, photo-reproductions of racecar designs, a photograph of the first Braniff Airlines airliner, and two reels of 16mm movie film (housed separately) of undetermined subject matter. Newspaper clippings relating to featured individuals accompany some of the photographs.
Dates:
1900 - 1950