Petroleum -- Texas.

Scope and Contents A group of letters (primarily from B. F. Sheffer to his son, Marion) regarding the state of employment in the Kern County, California oil fieds from 1913-1916 including many periods of unemployment, the morale and conditions of the oil workers, and much about Bakersfield's unsavory side as an oil town (e.g. prostitution, gambling, corruption of public officials, etc.). Mentioned are Standard Oil and Associated Oil companies. Other topics included in the letters are about the natural world...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archive of annual industrial exposition based in Tulsa; includes executive correspondence, preparations materials, financial accounts, photographs, maps and artefacts. The International Petroleum Exposition Archive is organized into eight Series: Series 1: Historical papers include the history of the IPE; a local, regional, and general history of the petroleum industry; the by-laws of the IPE. Series 2: Correspondence consisting of administrative and exhibitor related...

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Letter to M. C. Enright from E. D. Wilson.

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Photocopy of a newspaper article from the Dallas Times Herald, titled "Dallas to host major petroleum show starting in '81", written by Molly Cole, Staff Writer.

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Prop - An Innovation in Used Oil Re-refining (The Phillips Re-refining Oil Process), written by R. E. Linnard and L. M. Henton. It was presented at the NPRA 1979 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

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Consists of 330 color transparencies of Southern Production Company and Sinclair Oil and Gas Company oil production sites, petroleum product plants, research centers, and scenery in areas such as Alaska, Canada, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

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The photo album not only illustrates oil field construction, equipment, methods and practices, but also gives the distribution of development costs for an average well during the 1920s. Each of the 68 photographs are captioned giving subject, place and date.