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Petroleum industry and trade -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 472 Collections and/or Records:

"Oklahoma's First Commercial Oil Well", 1937-9-29

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 6
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-6
Scope and Contents

A file of information concerning Oklahoma's first commercial oil well. It is from the Kansas-Oklahoma Division Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.

Dates: 1937-9-29

Pages from The Oil Weekly, 1938-1-31

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 7
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-7

Parke Atherton Dickey papers, 1957-1971

 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

"Peerless Oil Field Equipment Company's history with the IPE", Undated

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 1
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-1

"Percent of U.S. Land Leased for Oil and Gas", July 31

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 7
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-7
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping from the Tulsa Tribune. The map shown in the article is from the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Dates: July 31

Personal Income and Employment, 1974

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 5
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-5

"Petroleum Discovery and Production", Undated

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 7
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-7
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet about petroleum drilling methods. production methods, and has various diagrams. The pamphlet unfolds to show serveral diagrams.

Dates: Undated

"Petroleum in Legend, in History, and Today", 1956

 File — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 7
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-7
Scope and Contents

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".

Dates: 1956

"Petroleum in Progress", 1949-8-21

 Item — Box 1, Series 1: [Barcode: 000020968533], Folder: 6
Identifier: 1982-007-1-1-6