University of Wyoming
The Sun Oil Company was established in 1886 by Joseph Newton Pew and Edward O. Emerson. It was officially called Sun Oil in 1890 as business gained momentum. Sun Oil opened its first service station in the early 1920s and placed its stock in the New York Stock Exchange a few years later in 1925. The company continued to experience success up until the beginning of WWII when it decided to form its own mining company. In 1956, Sun Oil introduced a new invention, revolutionizing the oil industry, called the Custom Blending Pump which had the capability to dispense a choice of five octane grades of gas through one pump. In the 1970s, Sun Oil went through a major restructuring that led to an updated name: Sun Company, Inc. Today, the company operates under the name Sunoco.
Collection contains reports titled “Analysis of World Tank Ship Fleet”; issues of Our Sun including the 75th anniversary edition; booklets on Texas oil and gas; issues of Shale Country for the majority of 1975 and beginning of 1976; and reports for the Sunray DX Oil Company.
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This material was received from James S. Cross, Helen Mary Pyle, and Walter M. Sanford between July 1962 and March 1976.
There are no known other archival collections created by the Sun Oil Company at the date of processing.
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