Herman C. Bretschneider papers, 1918-1967
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Bretschneider, Herman C., 1885-1971
- Title
- Herman C. Bretschneider papers
- Dates
- 1918-1967 (inclusive)19181967
- Quantity
- 3.53 cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 00416
- Summary
- Repository
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American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Herman C. Bretschneider, a Denver pioneer oilman, started his career in the oil industry in 1912 working with the Franco-Wyoming Oil Company. While there he participated in the development of several major oil fields in Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and Colorado. He later worked as head of the exploration department of Midwest Refining Company and then as president of Midwest Exploration Company. Beginning in 1934 he worked as an independent oilman.
Content Description
Papers consist mainly of Bretschneider's subject files (1929-1964) kept while he was working independently, which contain correspondence, reports, statements and photographs and concern petroleum and mining companies, and mines and petroleum fields mainly in the Rocky Mountains. From the time period Bretschneider was working with Midwest Refining Company and Midwest Exploration Company, there are albums of photographs (1920s) of oil fields and wells, equipment and workers. There are also some biographical materials.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Copyright InformationThe researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Preferred Citation
Preferred CitationItem Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative Information
Related Materials
Related MaterialsThere are no known other archival collections created by Herman C. Bretschneider at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition InformationReceived from Mrs. H.C. Bretschneider, 1957-1974.
Processing Note
Processing InformationFinding aid encoded by Dinah Miles and D. Claudia Thompson in 2020.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Alvarado Gold Mining Company:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Balance sheets--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Trial Balance--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Cash Statements--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--16 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Expense Statements--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Memorandum--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Record of Ore Shipments--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Reports--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Argo Mine:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--16 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Prospectus--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Reports--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Atlas Mining and Milling Company:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--28 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Memorandum--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Statements--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Map--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Blue Bird Mine:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Memorandum--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Reports--12 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Transportation Charges--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Burnt River Placer (Oregon):
Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--27 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Newspaper Article--9 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Notes--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Telegrams--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Cherry Ridge Structure:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Geological Maps--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Geologic Reconnaissance Reports--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Columbia Gas Company:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Balance Sheets--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence--93 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Income Statements--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Notice to Stockholders--21 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Profit and Loss Statements:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Columbia Gas Company--10 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Eastern Washington Natural Gas Company Inc.--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Hardrock Oil Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Treasure State Pipe Line Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Triangle Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Reports:
Container: Box 1
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Description: Audit ReportsDates: December 31, 1957-December 31, 1969Container: Box 1
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Description: Economic Feasability of Natural Gas Service to Connell, Washington--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Economic Feasability of Natural Gas Service to Goldendale, Washington--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Economic Feasibility of Natural Gas Service to Ritzville, Washington--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Market Survey and Estimate of Earnings, Dayton and Waitsburg, Washington--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Statement of Operation--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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Description: Miscellaneous--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 1
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El Capitan Mine:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Correspondence--16 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Report--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Flat Coulee:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Correspondence: 5 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Drilling Log--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Geological Formation Record--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Geological Maps--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Leases--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Flat Coulee Structure--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Fontanelle Creek, Wyoming:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Geological Maps--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Map Legend--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Four Bear Royalty:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Agreement: Option--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Agreement: Royalty--8 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Assignment--8 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Assignment of Overriding Royality--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Correspondence--61 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Geological Maps--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Leases--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Memorandum--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Operatioon Calendar--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Telegram--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Unit Development and Operating Contract--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Appropriation of Acreage--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Miscellaneous--14 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Griffith Mine--Georgetown, Colorado:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Assay Report--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Financial Statement (extracts)--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Cross Lode Stope Report--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Estimated Original Weight of Ore and Rock--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Report on Griffith Mine--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Miscellaneous--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Hardrock Oil Company:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Assignment of Contract--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Balance Sheet--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Contract for the Sale of Oil and Gas, Leases and Equipment--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Correspondence--108 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Dividend List--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Notices to Stockholders--22 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Geological Maps--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Memorandum--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Statements:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Financial--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Cash Reciepts and Disbursements--35 pieces (quarterly)Dates:Container: Box 2
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Profit and Loss Statement:
Container: Box 2
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Description: Hardrock Oil Company--15 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Consumers Gas Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Treasure State Pipe Line Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Triangle Company--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Telegram--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Wells of Hardrock Oil Company--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 2
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Description: Miscellaneous--10 piecesDates:Container: Box 2
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Independent Natural Gas Company:
Container: Box 3
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Description: Balance Sheet--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Chronology of Independent Natural Gas Company--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Correspondence--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Gas Purchase Contract--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Notices to Stockholders--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Statement: Cash Receipt and Disbursements--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Statement: Profit and Loss--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Resolution--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Doctor Jack Pot Report of Properties:
Container: Box 3
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Description: Agreement and Declaration of Trust--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Correspondence--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Leases--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Notices to Stockholders--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Report: Analysis & Comparison of Reports--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Report: Report on the Properties--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Report: Statistical Analysis of Operation--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Statement of Revenue & Expenses--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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J. V. L. Mining Company:
Container: Box 3
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Description: Agreement to Sell Stock--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Correspondence--103 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Reports--8 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Geological Report--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Progress Reports--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Balance Sheets--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Geological Maps--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Memorandum of Income--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Statement: Cash Receipts and Disbursements--74 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Telegrams--22 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Miscellaneous--13 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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J. V. L. Mining Company-Elkton Mine:
Container: Box 3
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Description: Correspondence--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Geological Map--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Photographs--13 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Reports--13 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Description: Miscellaneous--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 3
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Montana Gas Corporation:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--58 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Geological Maps--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Plan of Complete Liquidation--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Reports--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Big Sandy & Lewistown Pipeline - well record--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Bowes Field:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Memorandum--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Photographs--9 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Reports--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Well Records--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Miscellaneous--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Box Elder: Geological Maps--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Pendroy Structure - Zodiac Oil Company:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Geological Maps--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Newspaper Clippings--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Supplemental Report--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Treasure State Pipe Line Company:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--30 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Notices to Stockholders--8 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Reports--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Statement: Cash Reciepts and Disbursements--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Statement: Profit & Loss--9 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Telegrams--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Waiver--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Miscellaneous: 5 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Northern Gas Company:
Container: Box 4
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Bow and Arrow:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Leases--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Legal Agreement, Document #100870--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Memorandum--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Water Analysis--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Geological Maps--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Rocky Mountain Petroleum Pioneers:
Container: Box 4
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Description: Correspondence--89 piecesDates:Container: Box 4
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Description: Memorandum--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 4
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Rocky Mountain Petroleum Pioneers:
Container: Box 5
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Description: By-Laws--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Certificate of Incorporation--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Brief Historical Statement--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Membership Certificates--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Membership Lists--20 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Application for Membership--31 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Biographical Outline for Members-10 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Notices to Members--22 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--29 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Christmas Cards--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Signal Butte Structure:
Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Oil and Gas Lease--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Memorandum--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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South LaBarge (Vaughan B. Connelly):
Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--16 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Judgement and Decree in Civil Action No. 2865--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Oil and Gas Rules of Practice--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Telegrams--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Spokane Natural Gas Company:
Container: Box 5
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Description: Analysis of Balance Sheet--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Balance Sheet--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Summary of Balance Sheet--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--16 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Memorandums--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Statistics of Gas Companies, 1956--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Tiger Ridge:
Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--17 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Receipt and Agreement--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Telegrams--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Well Completions, Incorporated:
Container: Box 5
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Description: Articles and Treatises--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: By-Laws--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Certificate of Incorporation--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--13 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Memorandums--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: McCarthy Contracts--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Report--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Notes and Notices for Well Completion's Stockholders--20 picesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--7 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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West Deal (Controversy HCB & WRV):
Container: Box 5
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Description: Agreement--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Memorandum of Agreement--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Correspondence--4 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Telegrams--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Miscellaneous--5 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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West Gold Group Mining Claims:
Container: Box 5
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Description: Assay Reports--2 piecesDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Expense Statement--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Description: Statement of Photo prints--1 pieceDates:Container: Box 5
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Personal Material:
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Description: Bigraphical folder containing material about Colorado's Pioneer Oil Man of the Year 1967 and a xerox copy of letter to Gene M. GressleyDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Book: Kuttner, Julius (editor) "Oil Engine Power Plant Handbook" (New York: Published by Oil Engine Power, 1926)Dates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Certificates of Award--6 piecesDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Miscellaneous Correspondence--8 piecesDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Geological Maps--3 piecesDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Project Notebook--3 ring loose-leafDates:Container: Box 6
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Photographs:
Container: Box
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Description: Album: Latin American projects--198 photosDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Album: Piute Mine projects--27 photosDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: Album: Western States Oil & Land Company--68 photosDates:Container: Box 6
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Description: A. K. Barnes--1 photoDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Henry D. Blackmer--1 photoDates:Container: Missing
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Description: Myron K. Blackmer--1 photoDates:Container: Box 8
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Description: Herman C. Bretschneider--1 photoDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: John D. Clark--1 photoDates:Container: Box 8
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Description: E. de Caplane--1 photoDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Thomas A. Dines--1 photoDates:Container: Box 8
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Description: Joseph C. O'Mahoney--1 photoDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Mission Creek Drilling & Triangle 7 Ranch--5 photosDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Group pictures of Rock Mountain Petroleum Pioneers--2 photosDates:Container: Box 7-8
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Description: Group pictures of THE OIL AND GAS JOURNAL--1 photoDates:Container: Missing
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Description: Group picture--A. W. Peake, R. E. Wilson, H. C. Bretschneider, Bruce Brown, Frank Prior, and 6 unknown men.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Group picture taken in front of Standard Oil Building at Midwest, Wyoming, those identified are Robert Stewart, Thomas Dines, and H. C. Bretschneider.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: 2 photographs of the 2nd annual meeting of Rocky Mountain Petroleum Pioneers, Denver, Oct. 21, 1954Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: 3 Midwest Refinig Company schedules (organizational charts)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Photo and list of the Rocky Mt. Petroleum PioneersDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Photo and list of the Rocky Mt. Petroleum PioneersDates: 1961Container: Box 7
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Description: Publication: "Colorado's Pioneer oil Man of the Year, 1967"Dates: 1967Container: Box 7
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Blue plastic folio:
Container: Box 7
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Description: (a) photograph of award presented to H. C. Bretschneider, May, 1967, by the Colorado Petroleum CouncilDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (b) Correspondence informing recipient of awardDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (c)Rough Draft, "Remarks of Pioneer Oil Man Award," Colorado Petroleum CouncilDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (d) Xerox copy of 8th Annual Awards Presentation ProgramDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (e) Xerox copies of newspaper clippings, "Oil Industry Honors Bretschneider," Cervis Rocky Mountain Journal, May 24, 1967 "Bretschneider named Colorado's Pioneer Oil Man," Rocky Mountain News, May 19, 1967Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (f) List of department personnel for the Midwest Refining Company and Midwest Exploration CompanyDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (g) Summary of experience in oil and gas affairs since 1912Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (h) Sundry personal and pusiness dataDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (i) Resume of experience in oil and gas affairs since 1912Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: (j) Photograph of recipient with the plaque designation Mr. H. C. Bretschneider, "Colorado's Pioneer Oil Man"Dates:Container: Box 7
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One 10"x13" black photo album. Each photo labelled with description as follows: (274 photos)
Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 1: "Here lies the Montana Independent Pipeline With No Oil to Transport a Half Million Dollar Tribute to the Unscrupulous, Perfidious, Smothering, False Propaganda of the Standard Monopoly. 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 2: Label: H. C. BRETSCHNEIDERDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 3: Western State Oil & Land Co.--Rig No. 1 Soap Crick. Rig No. 1--Western State Oil & Land Co.--Soap Crick.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 4: Discovery Well--Soap Creek. Rig No. --Western State Oil & Land Co.--Soap Crick.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 5: Lake of oil--Liquid gold--West Stae Oil & Land Co.--Soap Crick. Oil Tanks--Soap Creek.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 6: Western State Oil & Land Rig on Rotten Grass. Rig on rotten grass--Western State Oil & Land Co.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 7: Formation on Soap Creek. McFrys photo. Well No. 3--Soap Creek. McFrys photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 8: Oil Tanks on Soap Creek. McFrys photo, 1921. Oil Tanks on Soap Creek. McFrys photo, 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 9: Western State Oil & Land Co.--Well No. 2--Oil flowing from well on Soap Creek. McFrys photo, 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 10: Overflow oil from Well No. 2. Soap Creek. McFrys Photo. Oil flowing thru 2" line. Soap Creek Well No. 2. 1921. One unlabelled photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 11: Formation at Soap Creek, Montana. 1921. H. C. Bretschneider. 1921. Hogback Well--Navajo Indian Reservation. October 1922. One unlabelled photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 12: Western states #3--Soap Creek--Eklund Photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 13: Western States tanks and wells #2 and #3--Soap Creek. Eklund Photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 14: Western States #3--Soap Creek. Eklund photo. 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 15: Western States #3--Soap Creek. Eklund photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 16: Western States tanks and wells #2 and #3--Soap Creek. Eklund Photo. 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 17: Western States #2--Soap Creek. Prod. 2,400 bls. Per day. 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 18: Western States Camp and Well #2--Soap Creek. Eklund photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 19: C. H. Wegemann. 1921. Oil tanks on fire--Midwest Refinery--June 17, 1921--Night Scene 9:30 p.m. The Picture Shop, Casper. One unlabelled photo: Group of eight people. 1921. 8,500 bbls Oil boiling over--Midwest oil tanks on fire, June 17, 1921. Casper, Wyoming.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 20: W. S. Camp and well #2--Soap Creek. Eklund photo. 1921.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 21: Baxter Basin Well (Three different photos bu all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 22: Fittings on Southern Ute Well #1. (Six different photos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 23: Seven photos all with the common label: View at Well Site Ute #2--Well on Souther Ute--Structure in New Mexico--40 miles south of Durango, Colorado.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 24: Mountain 40 miles away--Alaska. 1922. Homer Field--Gulf Compression Plant with Curde Oil Absorbtion Towers on the right. May 29, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 25:Bretschneider, Stewart and Ellison ready to start. May 29, 1922. Dubberly, La. Mr. H. C. Bretschneider and his private car "Republic." May 29, 1922. Bretschneider and Ellison, May 29, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 26: Concrete block for balancing beam, Haynesville Field, May 29, 1922. Gulf rig with new engine on Baucum Lease--Haynesville Field May 29, 1922. Storage Tanks on Gulf Production Company's Baucum Lease---Haynesville Field, May 29, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 27: View in Gulf Production Company's yard at Breckenridge, Texas, May 28, 1922. View of pipe racks in Gulf Production Company's yard at Breckenridge, Texas, May 28, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 28: View of machine shops in Gulf Production Company's yard at Breckenridge, Texas, May 28, 1922. L. T. Garrett and Jack Reddick on tanks on Gulf Production Company's Thomson Lease--Mexia Field, June 14, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 29: View of north end of field from tanks on Gulf Production Company's Sharer Lease--Mexia Field, June 14, 1922. View of South end of field from tanks on Gulf Production Company's Sanders Lease--Mexia Field, June 14, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 30: Earthen storage of cut oil before being delivered--Goose Creek Field, May 21, 1922. The ferry across Goose Creek May 31, 1922.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 31: View up Goose Creek from the bridge, May 31, 1922. Signal Hill--Long Beach, California, September, 1923.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 32: Brea Canyon, California, September 21, 1923. Brea Canyon, California, September 21, 1923.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 33: Coalinga Field, California, September 26, 1923. Site of Lakeview Gusher, California, September 25, 1923.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 34: Santa Fe Springs, California. Santa Paula Field, California.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 35: Kern River, California, September 24, 1923. Teapot rock.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 36: The Midwest Refining Co.--Hepp Well--Big Lake Dome--Stillwater County, Montana, June, 1924. (Two photos with same label)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 37: The Discovery well, Moffat Dome, Texas Co., August 15, 1924. Freeman No. 1 on Moffat Dome, Texas Co., August 15, 1924.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 38: Midwest Well, Illes Dome, September 5, 1924. (Three different photos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 39: John D. Clark and H. G. Naylor watching flow of oil from Midwest well--Illes Dome, September 5, 1924. (Four different photo but labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 40: H. C. Bretschneider and a pool of oil--Illes well, September 5, 1924. John D. Clark and a pool of oil--Illes well, September 5, 1924. H. G. Naylor, John D. Clark, E. S. Shaw at Illes camp. September 5, 1924.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 41: H. G. Naylor enjoying his meal, Illes camp, September 5, 1924. (Two different photos but labelled the same.) H. C. Bretschneider, September 5, 1924. W. D. Waltman taking not of a 'warning', August 24, 1924.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 42: Group of delegates in attendance at 3d Annual Convention, Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Producers Association, Casper, Wyoming, Dec. 2-3, 1924. At City Park opposite Elks Home.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 43: From Denver to Montana 1924, Yellowstone Park--Bear. Teton Mts.--As seen from Amoretti Lodge, Moran, Wyo. Mr. Bretschneider and Mr. Dines--Teton Mountains in distance. Messrs. Dines, Shaw, Dietler & Bretscneider at the Illes Well--August 1924. Texas discovoery well, Moffatt Structure, Colorado. Geyser--Yellowstone Park. Midwest Ref. Co. well, Illes Structure, Colorado. Cottages--Amoretti Lodge, Moran, Wyoming.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 44: View to east in Papoose Field, Oklahoma. T. B. Slick's Muarry NO. 2, NE 1/4 Sec 3-9-9 in left foreground. 2/22/25. Scene on T. B. Slick's Endicott Lease at Tonkawa, Wells to five different sands at each location. H. C. Bretschneider at extreme right. February 12, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 45: Artesia Field, New Mexico-view northeast to Walker-Mitchell Well #2 (the black derrick) flowing about 300 bbls. From 1992 to 2017 feet, February 1, 1925. Artesia Field, New Mexio--view of Illinois Producers operations. At the right-24 foot bankd well power houe and warehouse. Derrick for Well No. 6 beyond. Extreme left, Well No. 7, February 1, 1925. New oil field at Oxford, Kansas. H. C. Fretschneider and Fowler Huffman beside twin wells drilling to 2600 foot sand. Discovery well at right. February 12, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 46: Spudding in John L. Shafer well #1. In group are: G. A. Smith, Field Supt., H. A. Stine, Clerk, H. M. Lytel and E. F. Lindle, Drillers. C. E. Boyd and C. W. Leasure, Tool Dressers. (Two different photos but labelled the same.) Loading casing at loading pier. Moab. April , 1925. Picture of cliff dweller heirogliphic of a bear engraved on side of cliff on bank of Colorado River. April, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 47: Views of the Colorado River and Moab District taken by C. H. Wegemann and Glenn Rubey--May, 1925. (Four different phoos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 48: Leaving Moab Valley as river starts down Grand Canyon. Cliffs on either side rose 1-1000 feet from river banks. Picture taken from bow of boat. April, 1925. Looking down Colorado River, Five miles above camp. Moab. April, 1925. Barge on Colorado River carrying equipment to Moab, April, 1925. Looking down Colorado River, three miles above camp, Moab, April, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 49: Looking down Colorado River, half-way between Moab and camp. Picture taken from roof of boat, April, 1925. View at camp taken from Colorado River, Moab, April, 1925. Unloading casing at landing pier 800 ft. above rig. Railroad track leads from pier to rig, Moab, April, 1925. View of derrick and camp, taken just below dynamo house, Moab, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Pahe 50: Four different photos and all unlabelled. 1. River and cliffs along bank. 2. Landscape scene. 3. River and cliffs along bank. 4. River and cliffs along bank.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 51: Four different views and all unlabelled. 1. View from boat looking down river and cliffs along bank. 2. Man in canoe coming to shore. 3. Man sitting on side of Boat looking down river. 4. Three men in a canoe coming to shore.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 52: Four different photos and all unlabelled. 1. Scene of camp along side of river. 2. Camp scene and derrick. 3. rock structure. 4. Unidentified man on bank of river.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 53: Four different photos and all unlabelled. 1. Three men in a canoe coming to shore. 2. Camp site under overhanging cliff. 3. Hieroglyphics on cave wall. 4. Man standing beside canoe.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 54: Three different photos and all unlabelled. 1. Four men in a canoe leaving shore. 2. River scene. 3. Hieroglyphics on cave wall. Cliffdweller hieroglyphics--Grand River Canyon.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 55: Views of the Colorado River and Moab District taken by Mr. Bretschneider on trip with T. S. Harrison, R. C. Coffin and A. W. Peake--April, 1926. Cane Creek No. 1, flowing gas and oil. Cane Creek No. 1, flowing gas and oil. John, Tom, and Bret on top of Hart Draw Structure.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 56: The bunch at Cane Creek No. 1. Saturday April 17th, noon, getting ready for the night, Gooseberry Ranger Station, Elkridge. Saturday April 17th, noon, Stephens' Canon. Sunday April 18th, repacked and ready to leave Gooseberry.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 57: Sunday April 18th, repacked and ready to leave Gooseberry. Looking across Hart Draw. The bathers on Indian Creek. 50 miles down the Colorado River from Moab.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 58: Looking down dark canon, Elkridge. At Crammer wellsite, Organ Rock. Looking up the valley from Organ Rock. Diamond drill cores in the foreground. Monday--April 19th. Bret at Gooseberry Ranger Station.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 59: John at Gooseberry Ranger Station. Looking down the Colorado River. The two horsemen--Gooseberry Ranger Station. Four tough guys--Organ Rock.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 60: Tom hidden by brush. Resting at the Falls on Indian Creek. Looking down Colorado River from the boat. Looking across Hart Draw.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 61: Looking down the Colorado River. (Two different photos but labelled the same.) Getting ready for the start, first morning out. Indian Creek. Looking across Hart Draw toward Needles.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 62: Overlooking Colorado River 1500 feet below, from entrance to tunnel. The 'Bunch' --Cane Creek. Twilight on the Colorado River near Moab, Utah. Bret and John--East Anticline, San Juan.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 63: Bulging River Bed--below Indian Creek. (Two different photos but labelled the same.) Igneous Plug near Organ Rock. The trail into Dark Canon--Elk Ridge.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 64: The trail into Dark Canon--Elke Ridge. Outfit--Peavine Canon, Elk Ridge. Dark Canon--Elk Ridge. Salt water and oil--Cane Creek.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 65: Hieroglyphics of ancient cliff-dwellers. Cliffdwellers Hieroglyphics near Moab, Utah. Midwest-Utah Southie Oil gusher on fire near Moab, Utah.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 66: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 67: No photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 68: Well #20 Ellen Lease, Hamilton Dome. Came in July 2, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 69: View to north in Papoose Field, Oklahoma. T. B. Slick's Murray No. 1, NE 1/4, Sec. 3, T. 9N., R. 9E, in right foreground. February 13, 1925. Messrs. Urshel, Huffman, and Jones, of T. B. Slick organization, and Mr. H. C. Bretschneider, at the deep sand discovery well in Tonkawa Field, Oklahoma. February 12, 1925. View of eastern part of T. B. Slick's Endicott Lease at Tonkawa. February 12, 1925.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 70: Train load of gasoline from Midwest Plant NO. 1 at Casper wrecked on CB&O road at Glendo, Wyoming. July, 1925. (Three different photos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 71: Pipelines being laid in the streets of Wichita, Kansas, by the Wichison Gas Co., August, 1925. (Three different photos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 72: Two different photos but have same label as page before.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 73: Deer Creek--Gas Well, August 5, 1925. (Three different photos but all labelled the same.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 74: Two different photos but have same label as page before.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 75: Scenes in Mexico-sent by C. H. Wegemann, July, 1926. The ranch of ElCojo--formerly a monastery. Dugout canoes on the Tuxpan River. An outcrop in the road to Tantoyuca.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 76: Plaza at Tantoyuca. Maraket day--Tanoyuca. The people are Indians from the surrounding country. Old barracks--Tanoyuca. This town is 70 miles southwest of Tampico and has little connection with the outside world as the roads are very poor.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 77: Along the Tamasce River, up which we sent in a launch some 50 miles. Speaking of idols. Hotel (on right) Tantoyuca. Note the load of pottery going to the Cucharas River 50 miles away.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 78: Cerro Ayul No. 4 on the Golden Lane of Mexico. The well is under the cone of earth and has produced 92,000,000 bbls. The ladies are standing beside the tools which stuck in the ground when blown out of the well as it came in. Well is the property of the Huasteca Petroleum Co. 21-L SE 1/4 Sec. 26-40-79 Completed 6/23/26. Encountered oil flow in First Wall Creek Sand at 1008 feet. Flowed 5000 bbls. first 24 hours thru 12 1/2" casing. First well drilled to First Wall Creek Sand 18 years ago, in 1908. Fine example of good results of unit operation of an oil field.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 79: Two different photos and unlabelled. 1. Photo of a house. 2. Photo of a large group of people.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 80: Three different photos and all unlabelled. 1. Two unidentified men. 2. One unidentified man in dark suit. 3. One unidentified man in light suit.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 81: Four different photos and all unlabelled. 1-4. Four different unidentified min in each picture out on golf course.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 82: Four different photos and all unlabelled. 1-3. Four different unidentified men in each picture out on golf course. 4. Five different unidentified men in each picture out on golf course.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 83: Six different photos and all unlabelled. 1-6. all are golf course scenes.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 84: Five different photos and all unlabelled. 1-5. All are golf course scenes.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 85: Scenes taken from W. D. Waltman's office, New York March, 1928. (Two different photos but have same label.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 86: Two different photos but have same label as page before.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 87: Mr. Waltman's secretary; Mrs. W. D. Waltman; Mrs. Grant, New York, March, 1928. W. D. Waltman's office New York 1928. (Two different photos but have same label.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 88: Meeting of Senate Sub-Committee Investigation of Salt Creek Leases July 17, 1928. (Three different photos but all have same label.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 89: Senator Ashurst Arizona. Senator Nye, South Dakota. Senator Kendrick, Wyoming. Senator Dale, Vermont.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 90: A. D. Aitken, Senatory Nye, Jack Steel. Two unidentified photos. 1. One single individual. 2. Large group of people.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 91: Senator John Kendrick, Wyoming. (Three different photos but all have same label.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 92: Three different photos with no identification. 1. Large oil field. 2. Large group of people. 3. Unidentified man standing on a butte overlooking oil field.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 93: Two different photos of large groups of people and unidentified. Senator Nye, Jack Steel.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 94: Two different photos of groups of people and unidentified.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 95: Farnsworth #34 SE 13 as she blew in from depth 3235'. July 22, 1930. (Two different photos but have same label.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 96: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 97: "Stanolind" Casper, Wyoming, July 25, 1928.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 98: Photo by RSE 9/27/29 showing L. to R. HCB, Frank Stearns of Ft. Sumner, GBJ and GHJ seated on wall of old cistern near site of Pete Maxwell home on Pecos River, near Ft. Sumner, N. M. It was at this house where Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in Maxwell's bedroom about midnight July 14, 1881. L. to R.--HCB, GHJ, Frank Stearns, GBJ. Standing on site of Pete Maxwell house on Pecos River near Ft. Sumner, N. M. Where Billy the Kid was killed by Pat Garrett, July 14, 1881. William H. Bonney or Billy the Kid, was born in New York City, November 23, 1859. L. to R.--GHJ, Frank Stearns, HCB, GBJ, at head of graves (3) in graveyard near old Ft. Sumner, N. M. Billy the Kid is said to have been buried in grave at left with Charlie Bowdried in middle and Tom O'Folliard at right, all killed by Pat Garrett.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 99: Unidentified photo of a large auditorium of people. Sign in background reads Warner Bros. W-----Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 100: Unidentified photo of a large auditorium of people. Sign in background reads Welcome A-P-I.Dates:Container: Box 7
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One 9:x14 1/2" red photo album. Each photo labelled with description as follows: (171 photos)
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Description: Cane Creek Structure from east side of riverDates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Oil wells everywhere in Burkburnett, Texas. 1919.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: The Midwest Refining Company--Hepp Well--Section 26, Township 1 North, Range 21 East; Big Lake Dome, Stillwater County, Montana.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Two unidentified photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 1: Smith Creek Dome--Sheridan County, Wyoming. Near Montana line east flank Big Horn Mountains--Looking northwest--White beds are Sundance Limestones--Foreground is Chugwater formation--Robinson photo. Amsden Canyon--Big Horn Mountains--Sheridan County, Wyoming. Looking southwest from Smith Creek Dome--Robinson photo. Madison limestone--North flank Little Belt Mountains--Antelope Creek--Judith Basin County, Montana--Looking up--Robinson photo. East flank Big Horn mountains--Sheridan County, Wyoming--Looking south--The mountain flank is Madison limestone--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 2: Sapphire Mine-Little Belt mountains--Judith Basin County, Montata--Looking northwest--This mine produces the only one of its kind in the world--Robinson photo. Great Northern Railway Coal Mine--Lehigh, Judith Basin County, Montana--Looking Southeast--Robinson photo. Washing sapphires--New Mine--Togo Creek, Judith Basin County, Montana--Looking southeast--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 3: Finch Fold--9 miles west of Finch, Rosebud County, Montana--Looking southeast--Bearpaw shale above, Judith River sandstone below--Robinson photo. Wolf Butte at north end of Little Belt Mountains--Judith Basin County, Montana--Looking Southeast--A denuded Laccolith (?)--Robinson photo. Finch Fold--8 miles west of Finch, Rosebud County, Montana--Looking north--Note flat fold in judith River sandstone in distant escarpment--Robinson photo. Twin Sisters--Little Belt Range--Judith Basin County, Montana--Looking south--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 4: Lance Formation--Sarpy Creek--15 miles south of Sanders, Treasure County, Montana--Looking east--Typical erosion forms of Lance--Robinson photo. Typical topography on Finch Fold 8 miles west of Finch, Rosebud County, Montana--Looking northeast--Taking during rainstorm--Robinson photo. Mine near Mussellshell, Mussellshell County, Montana--Looking southeast--Coal is mined from Lance--Robinson photo. Reed Point--Stillwater County, Montana--Looking south--Yellowstone river and Livingston (Lance) Formation--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 5: Escarpment of Eagle Sandstone--Township 35 North, Range 4 West--Looking northeast--West Flank of Sweetrass Arch--Robinson photo. Badlands developed in Virgelle (Eagle) Sandstone--Four miles west of Virgelle--Chouteau County, Montana--Looking down--Robinson photo. Badlands developed in Virgelle sandstone--Four miles west of Virgelle, Chouteau County, Montana--Looking northwest--Robinson photo. Sandstone Canyon of Marias River--Liberty County, Montana--Looking down river towards northeast--Robinson photo. Cradling gravel for gold--Gold Butte P. O.--Sweetgrass Hills--Looking up Gold Creek--Robinson photo. Ripple marked limestone from Basal Chugwater, Blue Water Creek, CArbon County, Montana--Looking down--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 6: Yellowstone River flowing over basal Lance (Fox Hills?) 2 miles west of Columbus, Stillwater County, Montana--Looking southwest--Robinson photo. International Boundary Monument--One mile west of Sweetgrass, Toole County, Montana--Looking Northwest--These posts are benchmarks at Base--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 7: Crazy Mountains--Sweetgrass County, Montana--Looking west--Taken just after sunset--Robinson photo. One unidentified picture. Crazy Mountains--Sweetgrass County, Montana--Looking northwest--The mountains are of igneous and metamorphic rock--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 8: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 9: Glaciel Lake Beacher--Flathead County, Montana--Looking Southeast--Mission Mountains in distance--Robinson photo. Buffalo--Near Ronan--Flathead County, Montana--Robinson photo. Close up photo of buffalo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 10: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 11: Sandstone split by roots--Yellowstone county, Montana--Looking north--Sandstone is in Lance Formation--Robinson photo. One unidentified photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 12: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 13: Mowry escarpment east flank of Soap Creek Fold--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana.--Robinson photo. Oil--Soap Creek Field--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking down--Robinson photo. Storage Tanks--Soap Creek Field--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking north down Soap Creek--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 14: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 15: Topography in Kevin-Sunburst oil field--Toole County, Montana--Looking east--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 16: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 17: Contact of Mowry and Thermopolis shales 0 Tschergis range--Little Big Horn River--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking southwest, upstream Robinson photo. Big Horn River in flood near Hardin, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking southwest, upstream Robinson photo. Eagles nest--Upper Fly Creek--Crow Reservation--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking down--Robinson photo. Northernmost exposure of Shannon sandstone--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana. Looking East--The thin sands occur in yellow sandy shale.--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 18: Sport Creek anticline--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking Northwest--the light colored material is gypsum in the Chugwater Formation--Robinson photo. North end of Sport Creek Anticline, Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana-Looking north across the valley of Lodgegrass Creek--The sundance (light) overlying the Chugwater--Robinson photo. Sharp fold on south end of Sport Creek Anticline--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking Northeast--Taken from Little Big Horn River Valley--Robinson photo. Big Horn Mountains--Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking west up Lodgegrass Creek--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 19 Big Horn Canyon--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking Northeast--Greatest depth of canyon 3000-foot cut in Madison and older limestones. Robinson photo. Beauvais Creek--Crow Reservation--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking northwest--The low escarpment is the outcrop of the Dakota sandstone--Robinson photo. Dry Head Ranch--Dry Head Creek--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking northeast--Tensleep sandstone ledge in background--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 20: Big Horn River--Hardin in distance--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking upstream southwest--Robinson photo. Ruins of Fort C. E. Smith on Big Horn River, Big Horn County, Montana--Robinson photo. St. Xavier Mission, Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking north--Robinson photo. Custer Battlefield--Crow Reservation--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking northwest--The stones amrk the spots where the troopers fell--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 21: Roundup camp--Beauvais Creek, Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking up creek west--Robinson photo. Erosion form in Colorado shale--North of Toluca, Big Horn County, Montana--Mowry escarpment in background--Robinson photo. Bringing the calf to the fire for branding--Beauvais Creek--Crwo Reservatin--Big Horn County, Montana--Looking north--Mowry escarpment in the distance--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 22: Branding--Big Horn County, Crow Reservation, Montana--Robinson photo. A big maverick down--Beauvais Creek, Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking northwest towards Mowry escarpment--Robinson photo. Working on a maverick 0 Beauvais Creek, Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana--Looking north--The escarpment in the distance is of Mowry shale--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 32: Great Falls of Missouri--Lakota? Sandstone--Cascade County, Montana--Looking upstream west--Robinson photo. Sinuous dike in Eagle sandstone--Alkali Creek structure--Looking east--Robinson photo. Bank of Glacial Drift--Black Coulee 20 miles west of Big Sandy, Chouteau County Montana. Looking east--Robinson photo. Dam above Great Falls--Missouri river--Ten miles below Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana--Looking northwest upstream. Robinson photo. Diamond jointing Tensleep sandstone north end of Black Butte fold, Carbon County, Montana--Robinnson photo. Intrusion in fault structure Spring Creek, Chouteau County, Montana--Looking northwest--The contact is between Eagle sandstone and peridotite (?)--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 24: Chevron Fold--Six miles north of Byrum, Montana--Looking South--Exposure in road cut--Top of eagle--Virgelle sandstone--Robinson photo. Slickensides along fault plane--Big Timber Creek, Sweetgrass County, Montana--Livingston formation--Robinson photo. Judith River sandstone--Wild Cat Creek, Sweetgrass County, Montana--Looking Northeast up creek--Robinson photo. Judith River Formation--Wildcat Creek--Stillwater County, Montana--Looking Northwest--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 25: Railroad cut on Great Northern Railroad in Colorado shale--One mile northeast of Fowlder Staion on Dry Fork of Marias River--Pondera County, Montana--Looking northeast--Robinson photo. Fort Union formation--Sarpy Creek--South of Sanders--Treasure County, Montana--Robinson Photo. South End of Cottonwood--Ringling anticline, Gallatin County, Montana--Looking west--Robinson photo. Eagle sandstone--Cameron Creek, Golden Valley County, Montana--Looking east--Shows pinching out of bed--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 26: Alberta Block Coal Company Well--Devils Basin, Musselshell County, Montana--Looking Southwest--Robinson photo. Pumping Black oil--Alberta Block Coal Company Well--Devils Basin, Musselshell County, Mont.--Horizontal--Robinson photo. Coal entry in eagle sandstone--Potters Basin anticline--Park County, Montana--Looking west--Robinson photo. Jack M. Sickler, geologist--Mid-Norther Oil Co.--Looking cross--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 27: Barns--Montana State College, Bozeman, Montana--Looking northwest--Robinson photo. Agricultural building--Montana State College, Bozeman, Montana--South view--Robinson photo. Main Street--Bozeman, Montana, Gallatin County, Montana--Looking west--Robinson photo. South end of Bridger Mountains with Montana State College "M" Gallatin County, Montana--Looking northeast--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 28: Bridger Range from east--Madison Limestone forms the peaks--Robinson photo. East flank of Bridger Range--Gallatin County, Montana--Looking west--The Madison limestone forms the top of the range--Robinson photo. Stack threshing--Gallatin County, Montana--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 29: Mount Gould--Glacier National Park--Looking Southwest--Robinson photo. Mount Gould, Lake McDermott and Many Glacier Hotel--Glacier National Park--Looking Southwest--Robinson photo. Mount Gould and Stark Point--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 30: Stark Point--Glacier National Park--Looking east from Many Glaciery Hotel--Mountain is of Algonkin red argyllite--Robinson photo. McDonald Lake--Glacier National Park--Looking northeast--A cloudy day--Robinson photo. Amphitheatre Mountain from Upper St. Marry Lake--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Robinson photo. Going to Sun Mountain--Glacier National Park--Looking northwest--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 31: Citadel Mountain--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Taken from Going-to-Sun Camp--Little Matterhorn on extreme right--Robinson photo. Mount Wilber--Glacier National Park--Looking west--Robinson photo. Upper St. Mary Lake and Red Rock mountain--Glacial National Park--Looking southeast--Robinson photo. Upper St. Mary Lake--Glacier National Park--Little Matterhorn in distance--Looking southwest--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 32: The Garden Wall--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--The Continental Divide between Swiftcurrent and McDonald Creeks--Robinson photo. Terminal Moraine Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Horizontal--The Material has been so recently deposited that rain has not washed the sand and clay from the pebbles and boulders--Robinson photo. Moraine at foot of Grinnell Glacierr--Glacier National Park--Looking north, taken in August, 1922. Grinnell Glacier and Moraine--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 33: Mount Gould 9541 feet--Glacier National Park--Looking south--Note Cliff and Cornice Glaciers--Robinson photo. Discharge from Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--This is the upper part of a cascade 1800 feet high--Robinson photo. Swiftcurrent Valley and Mount Gould--Glacier National Park--Looking Southwest--A symmetrical "U" Valley--Robinson photo. Crevasses on line of Bergschrund Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking south--Note cliff glacier in background--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 34: Snow slide groove on Allen Mountain--Glacier National Park--Looking southeast from Grinnell Glacier--Robinson photo. Mount Gould--Glacier National Park--Looking south--Grinnell Glacier and Neve Field at base--Robinson photo. Sherburne Valley--Glacier National Park--Looking Northeast--Note "U" shape of valley and moraine--Robinson photo. Bergschrund of Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Note annual rins in ice--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 35: Surface of Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking northwest--The debris on the surface is a concentration due to the summers melting--Robinson photo. Glacier erosin--Glacier National Park--Looking southeast from Grinnell Glacier--This feature is developed in algonkian red argyllite--Robinson photo. Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Robinson photo. Cataract Valley--Glacier National Park--Looking southwest--Taken in August--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 36: Grinnell Lake and Lake Josephine--Glacier National Park--Looking northeast--Grinnell Lake is white from suspended rock flour--Robinson photo. Lateral moraine of Grinnell Glacier--Glacier National Park--Looking northwest--The morainal ridge is very narrow and about 100 feet high--Robinson photo. Lake Josephine--South Swiftcurrent Valley--Glacier National park--Looking Northeast--The mountains are of algonkian red argyllite--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 37: Lumber at Somers--Flathead County, Montana--Looking west--Robinson photo. Logs in Flathead Lake--Somers, Montana--Flathead County, Montana--Looking Northeast--Robinson photo. Flathead Lake--Flathead County, Montana--Looking northeast--Robinson photo. Near Flathead Lake--Flathead County, Montana--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 38: Gorge of Pend O'Reille River Flathead County, Montana--Looking upstream northeast--The Gorge is cut in Algonkian sediments--Robinson photo. Effects of erosion in lake beds--Flathead County, Montana--Looking east--Mission Mountains in distance--Robinson photo. Mount McDonald--Mission Mountains, Flathead County, Montana--Looking east--The mountains are algonkian argyllite--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 39: Panoram of Snowy Mountains from north--Fergus County, Montana--Taken on Cottonwood Creek--Robinson photo. Lateral lithologic variation Kootenai (Fuson) Formation east of Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana--Robinson photo. Badlands, Developed in Colorado shale--Arrow Creek, Fergus County, Montana--Looking east--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 40: Inequalities of Deposition Kootenai (Fuson) Formation--Railroad cut east of Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana, Robinson photo. Wheat field--Arrow Creek Bench--Fergus County, Montana--Looking north--Marquis wheat--Robinson photo. Cat Creek Oil Field--Fergus County, Montana--Looking north from Mid-Northern Warehouse--Robinson photo. South Moccasin Mountains--Fergus County, Montana looking south--The upper part of the mountain group is made up of Madison limestone and igneous rocks--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 41: Badlands on lower Judith River--Fergus County, Montana--Developed in Judith River, Claggett, Eagle and Colorado rocks--Relief 500 feet--Looking east--Robinson photo. Badlands of Arrow Creek--Fergus and Chouteau Counties--Montana--Looking North--The White Bank is Eagle Sandstones--Robinson photo. Rig of Eugene Oil prospectors--Bauley Dome--Fergus County, Montana--Looking north--Hole starts in basal part Eagle Sandstone--Robinson photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 42: View of Gunsight Pass on Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 43: Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, showing lateral moraine. One unidentified photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 44: Cottonwood Ringling Structure, Montana--From top of ridge looking southeast. One unidentified photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 45: Cottonwood-Ringling Structure, Montana--Looking northeast from east side of high ridge. One unidentified photo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 46: Near Bridger, Montana--Photo by T. H. Harrison. Dike of igneous rock in the Nye-Dean anticline, west of Dean Postoffice. Photo by Lonesberry.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 47: Justky--St 1--Rector #1, Rangely Field, Colo. Utah Sou. Equity #1 Sec 36 Rangely Field.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 48: Utah Souther Equity--McLaughlin #2 Sec. 23--Rangely Field, Colo. Husky--Std #2, Sec. 24--Rangely Field, Colo.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 49: Utah Southern Equity--Refinery--Vernal, Utah.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 50 H. G. Naylor, John D. Clark, Everett Shaw--Iles Camp, Iles Dome Colorado, 1924. John D. Clark looking into pool of oil at Iles Dome, Colorado discovery well, 1924.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 51: Views of Carbon Plant, Lance Creek, Wyoming--Which was bought and dismantled by H. C. Bretschneider and J. H. Miller, from The Huber Corporation in 1941. (Four different photos.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 52: Carbon Plant. (Four different photos.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 53: Carbon Plant. (Four different photos.)Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 54: Passport picture for trip to Venezuela, 1925. H. C. Bretschneider. Greetings from H. C. Bretschneider, Nov. 1937. Leslie Thompson and H. C. B. taking a walk in Kansas City, about 1937.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 55: Petroleum Club, Oct. 20, 1949.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Description: Page 56: no photos.Dates:Container: Box 7
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
- Oil fields -- Montana.
- Oil fields -- West (U.S.)
- Oil fields -- Wyoming.
- Oil well drilling -- West (U.S.)
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States.
Corporate Names
- Midwest Exploration Company.
- Midwest Refining Company.
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs.
