Collection Summary
Fohs, F. Julius (Ferdinand Julius)
F. Julius Fohs papers
1903-1964
01706
5.00 cubic feet (5 boxes)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
Maps, reports, well logs, and other materials of a petroleum geologist who worked extensively in the western United States and West Asia.
Biography of F. Julius FohsFerdinand Julius Fohs (1884-1965) was a geologist who conducted oil and mineral resources exploration and development in the United States, Canada, and West Asia. He grew up in Marion, Kentucky, and studied at Columbia University. Fohs began his career with the United States Geological Survey in Kentucky. He first visited Palestine in 1919. He returned to West Asia after the Second World War, where he studied and reported on petroleum and water resources in the area before and after the creation of the State of Israel. His work in petroleum exploration also took him to the western United States, especially Montana and North Dakota. Fohs wrote articles on geology and petroleum in West Asia and the Soviet Union and on world oil resources.
Scope and ContentCollection contains correspondence, subject files, logs, reports, maps, and photographs all related to Fohs's work. There are reports, maps, and well logs on oil and water resources in Palestine/Israel. There are also reports concerning resettlement possibilities in that area. There are reports and maps on oil in the Williston Basin, as well as reports and maps on other petroleum resources in the western United States and Canada. The collection contains clippings and other printed material describing oil development in many parts of the world, including the United States, Canada, West Asia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Europe, and South America. Also included are manuscripts of Fohs's articles on world oil.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright,
property, and libel laws as they apply.
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by F. Julius Fohs at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
The material was received by will from the estate of F. Julius Fohs in 1965.
Processing Information
The collection was arranged and described by D. Claudia Thompson in February 2020.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection
Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Geology, Economic.
Petroleum -- Geology.
Mines and mineral resources -- Middle East.
Petroleum -- Prospecting -- West (U.S.)
Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Middle East.
Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Canada.
Water-supply -- Middle East.
Palestine -- 20th century
Israel -- 20th century
Maps.
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Mines and Mineral Resources
Energy Production
Science
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Container List
Series I. West Asia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Areas covered include Palestine (pre-1948), Israel, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and parts of the Soviet Union. Materials include printed documents, maps, correspondence, notes, reports by Fohs and others, and oil well drill logs and electric logs.
1
Dead Sea (printed)
1928-1939
1
Dead Sea - Potash (reports)
1944-1948
1
Dead Sea - West (reports)
1963
1
Egypt (maps)
undated
1
Galilee (printed)
1958-1959
1
Iran/Persia (printed, reports)
1920-1948
1
Israel (correspondence)
1947-1961
1
Israel (maps)
1951, undated
1
Israel (maps)
1960
1
Israel (printed)
1951-1956
1
Israel (printed)
1957-1960
1
Israel (reports)
1955-1958
1
Israel: Beeri (well logs)
1954-1957
1
Israel: Brur #1 (well logs)
1956-1957
1
Israel: Brur #2 (well logs)
1957
1
Israel: Brur-Negba (maps)
1960
1
Israel: Haifa (well logs)
1955-1956
1
Israel: Heletz (maps)
1957
1
Israel: Heletz (printed)
1957-1958
1
Israel:Heletz (reports)
1957
1
Israel: Heletz #2-#16 (well logs)
1956-1957
1
Israel: Heletz #22-#23 (well logs)
1957
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur (printed)
1958
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur - Analysis of Water from Wells (reports)
1957
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur - Levy, Arthur G. (maps)
1958
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur - Levy, Arthur G. (printed)
1958-1959
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur - Levy, Arthur G. (reports)
1958
1
Israel: Heletz-Brur-Negba (maps)
1957-1960
1
Israel: Huleikat (well logs)
1955
1
Israel: Iraq to Israel Gas Pipeline (correspondence)
1950-1951
1
Israel: Israel Continental Oil Company/Pan Israel Company (maps)
1954-1956
1
Israel: Israel Continental Oil Company/Pan Israel Company (reports)
1954-1956
1
Israel: Israel Continental Oil Company/Pan Israel Company (Well logs)
1954-1956
2
Israel: Mazal (well logs)
1954
2
Israel: Masada (well logs)
1954-1955
2
Israel: Mavqi'im (well logs)
1956-1960
2
Israel: Migdal (maps)
1956, undated
2
Israel: Negba #1-#4 (well logs)
1956-1960
2
Israel: Negba SH#1-SH#8 (well logs)
1955-1956
2
Israel: Negev (printed)
1951-1959
2
Israel: Negev (reports)
1956-1958
2
Israel: Saad (maps)
1957
2
Israel: Saad (well logs)
1956-1958
2
Israel: Sdom (maps)
undated
2
Israel: Sdom (well logs)
1956-1957
2
Israel: Sedot Akiva (well logs)
1956
2
Israel: Sinaf (maps)
1956
2
Israel: Sinaf (well logs)
1956-1957
2
Israel: Sumsum (well logs)
1956-1957
2
Israel: Talmei Yaffe #1 (well logs)
1960
2
Israel: Talmei Yaffe #2 (well logs)
1960
2
Israel: Talmei Yaffe #3 (well logs)
1960
2
Israel: Water (reports)
1955
2
Israel: Zikim #1 (well logs)
1957
2
Israel: Zohar (maps, well logs)
1958
2
Jordan Valley (maps)
1947
2
Jordan Valley (printed)
1946-1959
2
Middle East (maps)
1928-1947
2
Middle East (printed)
1928-1946
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Geology and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Possibilities of Palestine and Sinaitic Peninsula" (printed)
1927
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Middle East Oil and Palestine" (typescript)
undated
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Necessity for a Middle East Technical-Economic Commission" (typescript)
undated
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Oil in the Middle East" (maps, typescript)
undated
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Oil Reserve Provinces of Middle East and Southern Soviet Russia" (typescript)
undated
2
Middle East: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Resources of the Middle East" (printed)
1948
2
Palestine (maps)
1936
2
Palestine (printed)
1903-1938
2
Palestine: Bernadotte Proposals (correspondence, printed, reports)
1946-1949
2
Palestine: "Electro-Geophysical Methods in Palestine," by F.J. Fohs (typescript and notes)
1936
2
Palestine: Jebel Usdum (maps)
1947
2
Palestine: Litani-Jordan Negev Project (maps)
1945
3
Palestine: Palestine Mining Syndicate (maps)
1940
3
Palestine: "Report on Economic Geology of Palestine and Natural Resources," by F.J. Fohs (correspondence, maps, notes, typescript)
1920-1923
3
Palestine: Wadi Hadira (reports)
undated
3
Palestine: Water (reports)
1937-1942
3
Palestine and Sinai: Palestine Exploration Fund Maps (from microfilm) - "structured by F.J. Fohs, 1919"
1915-1917
3
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman (maps, printed)
1947-1964
3
Sinai (maps)
undated
3
Syria, Arabia, and Mesopotamia (printed from microfilm, German language)
1914
3
Trans-Jordan: "Development and Land Settlement Potentialities of Trans-Jordan," by F.J. Fohs - Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria (maps, reports)
1943
3
Trans-Jordan: "Development and Land Settlement Potentialities of Trans-Jordan," by F.J. Fohs - Palestine (maps, reports)
1943
3
Trans-Jordan: "Development and Land Settlement Potentialities of Trans-Jordan," by F.J. Fohs - Trans-Jordan (maps, reports)
1943
3
Turkey (printed)
1955-1964
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (maps from microfilm)
undated
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (maps, printed from microfilm - Russian language)
undated
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (printed)
1909-1938
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (printed)
1952-1969
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (printed from microfilm)
undated
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Lantern Slides (maps)
circa 1948
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - "Petroleum Resources of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," author unidentified (printed from microfilm)
1947
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Siberia (reports from microfilm)
1908-1938
3
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Siberia (reports from microfilm)
1937
Series II. North and South America
Sub-series 1. United States
3
Alaska (maps)
1923-1959
3
Alaska (printed)
1958-1963
3
Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas - El Paso Natural Gas Company Pipelines (maps)
1948
3
Arkansas (maps)
undated
3
Arkansas (printed)
1955-1958
3
Arkansas - El Dorado (maps, printed)
undated
3
Arkansas - Russelville Structure (maps)
undated
3
Arkansas and Oklahoma (printed)
1962-1964
3
California (printed)
1944-1964
3
Colorado (maps)
1913
3
Colorado (printed)
1941-1964
3
Colorado (reports)
undated
3
Florida (printed)
1944-1963
3
Four Corners Area (printed)
1957-1962
3
Illinois (printed)
1944-1964
3
Indiana (printed)
1951-1956
3
Kansas (printed)
1947-1964
3
Kentucky (printed)
1963
3
Louisiana (maps)
1918-1920
3
Louisiana - Caddo (reports)
1917
3
Louisiana - Erath (negatives)
undated
3
Louisiana - Vienna Structure (reports)
1918
4
Michigan (printed)
1964
4
Missouri (printed)
1957-1964
4
Montana (maps)
1954-1958
4
Montana (printed)
1915-1957
4
Montana - Devil's Basin (reports)
undated
4
Montana - Kevin-Sunburst (reports)
1926
4
Montana - Poplar (maps)
1953
4
Montana - Roosevelt County (reports)
1956-1959
4
Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota - Cedar Lake Anticline (maps, printed, reports)
1939-1957
4
Montana and Wyoming - Big Horn Basin (maps, printed, reports)
1943-1953
4
Montana and Wyoming - Elk Basin (maps, printed)
1944-1951
4
Nebraska (reports)
1953
4
Nevada (printed)
1963
4
New England, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont (printed)
1960-1964
4
New Jersey (printed)
1963
4
New Mexico (maps)
1944
4
New Mexico (printed)
1926-1964, undated
4
New Mexico - Cabra Springs (printed)
1932
4
New Mexico - Lea County (maps, printed, reports)
1936-1957
4
New Mexico - San Juan Basin (maps, printed)
1933-1963
4
New York (printed)
1951-1964
4
North Carolina (printed)
1950
4
North Dakota (maps)
undated
4
North Dakota (printed)
1952-1963
4
North Dakota (reports)
1952-1958
4
North Dakota - Bottineau County (printed, reports)
1961-1962
4
North Dakota - Divide County (photograph, reports)
1957-1958
4
North Dakota - Divide County (well logs)
1957
4
North Dakota - Divide County - Johnson Estate (maps, reports, well logs)
1952-1959)
4
North Dakota - Emmons County (maps, printed)
1952
4
North Dakota - McKenzie County (maps, printed, reports
1952-1960
4
North Dakota - Nesson Anticline (maps, printed)
1952-1956
4
North Dakota - Williams County (maps, reports)
1952-1954
4
North Dakota - Williston Basin (maps)
1957-1958
4
North Dakota - Williston Basin (printed)
1951-1959
4
North Dakota - Williston Basin (reports)
1952-1954
4
North Dakota and South Dakota (reports)
1956
5
Ohio (printed)
1964
5
Oklahoma (printed)
1943-1964
5
Ouachita Mountains (printed)
1931
5
Pennsylvania (printed)
1950
5
Rocky Mountains (printed)
1947-1961
5
South Dakota (printed)
1942-1963
5
Tennessee (printed)
1962-1964
5
Texas (maps)
1920-1921
5
Texas (printed)
1941, 1960
5
Utah (maps, printed)
1948-1964
5
Wyoming (maps)
1945-1953, undated
5
Wyoming (printed)
1928-1963
5
Wyoming - Fremont County (maps, printed, reports)
1953-1957
5
Wyoming - Horse Gulch (maps, reports)
undated
5
Wyoming - Laramie County (maps)
undated
5
Wyoming - Lawn Creek Structure (maps)
1928
5
Wyoming - Manderson (maps, printed, reports)
1951-1953
5
Wyoming - Natrona County (well logs)
1952
5
Wyoming - Niobrara County (maps, printed, reports)
1954-1959
5
Wyoming - Powder River Basin (maps, printed)
1949-1963
5
Wyoming - Salt Creek (maps, photographs, printed)
1914-1915
5
Wyoming - Sublette County (reports)
1953-1958
5
Wyoming - Weston County (reports)
1953
5
Wyoming - Worland (reports)
1952
Sub-series 2. Canada
5
Alberta (maps)
1913-1948
5
Alberta (printed)
1947-1964
5
Alberta - Viking Gas Field (maps, reports)
1916
5
Alberta and British Columbia (maps)
1916-1939
5
Alberta and Saskatchewan (maps)
1949
5
Arctic Archipelago (printed)
1960
5
British Columbia and Northwest Territories (printed)
1948-1964
5
General (maps)
1914-1944
5
General (printed)
1947-1961
5
Labrador and Quebec (printed)
1949-1960
5
Manitoba (printed)
1963
5
Maritime Provinces (printed)
1958-1962
5
Ontario (printed)
1960
5
Saskatchewan (maps)
1948-1952
5
Saskatchewan (printed)
1952-1962
5
Uranium Mining (printed, reports)
1952-1953
5
Western (notes, well logs)
undated
5
Western (printed)
1949-1963
5
Western - Government Regulations (printed)
1946-1948
Sub-series 3. South America
5
Chile (maps, printed)
1964
5
Colombia (maps, printed)
1939-1964
5
General (maps, printed)
1945-1963
5
Venezuela (maps, printed)
1950-1964
Series III. Europe and World
5
Europe: Carpathian Mountains, Italy, Rumania, General (maps, negative, printed)
1906, undated
5
World: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Oil and World Problems" (printed, typescript)
1951
5
World: Articles by F.J. Fohs - "Oil in the Modern World-A Critical Review" (typescript)
1951
5
World: Geology (printed, reports)
1927-1945
5
World: Magnetic and Micromagnetic Surveying (printed)
1940-1962
5
World: Petroleum Resources (negative, printed)
1947-1955