Petroleum -- History.
Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:
"Oklahoma's First Commercial Oil Well", 1937-9-29
A file of information concerning Oklahoma's first commercial oil well. It is from the Kansas-Oklahoma Division Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.
"OU Prof Traces First Oil Well In State to 1889 Chelsea Site", 1949-1-12
Newspaper article from the Tulsa World.
Pages from The Oil Weekly, 1938-1-31
Various pages from the Oil Weekly Newspaper, pages 143 - 158.
Paul Henry Giddens collection of Pennsylvania Oil Region photographs, 1847-1949
"Percent of U.S. Land Leased for Oil and Gas", July 31
Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Tribune. The map shown in the article is from the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Personal Income and Employment, 1974
Personal income and Employment from the attached list of CO's.
"Petroleum Discovery and Production", Undated
Pamphlet about petroleum drilling methods. production methods, and has various diagrams. The pamphlet unfolds to show serveral diagrams.
"Petroleum in Legend, in History, and Today", 1956
Booklet written by the American Petroleum Institute in New York. There are two copies of the booklet in the folder. The illustration on the front of the booklet is titled "Drake's Folly".
"Petroleum in Progress", 1949-8-21
Newspaper article from the Tulsa World, written by Walter Biscup.
Petroleum industry
This artificial collection was begun as a catch-all for small single gifts and purchases, and to make them easier for scholars to search them. This assemblage consists primarily of documents, correspondence, photographs, broadsides and artifacts, dealing mostly with United States history.