Ernest C. Miller papers, 1839-1990

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Miller, Ernest C. (Ernest Conrad), 1912-
Title
Ernest C. Miller papers
Dates
1839-1990 (inclusive)
Quantity
25.6 cubic feet (46 boxes)
Collection Number
00559
Summary
Writings and research material of an oil industry executive and petroleum historian.
Repository
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
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Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Ernest Conrad Miller (1912- ) was the president of West Penn Oil Company and an historian of the petroleum industry from its beginnings in Pennsylvania, through the rise of the Standard Oil Trust, to the development of western oil fields, such as the Salt Creek field of Wyoming. He authored several books on petroleum history, including "John Wilkes Booth - Oilman" and "Oil Mania: Sketches from the Early Pennsylvania Oil Fields" and "Oil Mining in Pennsylvania" (1946). He was a collector of petroleum memorabilia, as well as material on American aviation history and western history.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection includes the manuscript of Miller's "Tintypes in Oil" and related correspondence, as well as other publications by Ernest C. Miller. Research material includes the Union Oil Company's account books, 1934 and 1936; "Texas Petroleum News" 1919-1920; a petroleum letterbook, 1866-1868, of B.L. Harsell, a petroleum dealer; photographs of Sun Oil Company operations; as well as other pamphlets, articles, legal documents, correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts concerning petroleum history in the United States. Issues of the "Petroleum Gazette", "Warren County Observer", and "Pennsylvania History", 1987-1988, are included. There are several 19th century manuscripts on sperm oil and kerosene oil, most in the form of commercial circular letters. There is also material related to American aeronautics and to the American West.

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Ernest C. Miller at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

The material was received from Ernest C. Miller from 1958 to 1991.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was box-listed and the finding aid encoded by D. Claudia Thompson in September 2020.

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Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1
American Petroleum Institute program, 30th annual meeting - "Oil Men's Caravan"
1950
1
Art Prints: "A Reminiscence of Three Dollar Oil"; "A Reminiscence of Five Dollar Oil"; "Seventy Cent Oil - Its Cause - And Effect"
undated
1
Baroid Sales Division, National Lead Company publications - Baroid News Bulletin; "The Family Album Looks at the Oil Business"
1950-1956
1
Bicentennial Chronicle, vol. 1 no.1, York, Pennsylvania
1970, October
1
"Centennial of Oil" advance program, Titusville, Pennsylvania
1959
1
Cities Service magazine, Service
1949, July
1
"Miller Lubricants-A.D. Miller Sons Co." (pamphlet)
undated
1
Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association pamphlet ("Facts and Figures") in French, Spanish, Portuguese
undated
1
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission publication, "Drake Well Park"
1957
1
Stamps (1 sheet) of Azerbaijan
undated
1
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey magazine, The Lamp, 75th Anniversary issue
1957
1
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania publications, concerning oil
1883-1886
1
Twenty-five Year Club of the Petroleum Industry (annual banquet programs, 5th-8th; 10th-11th; 13th-17th)
1943-1956
1
Warren County Historical Society publications - "Stepping Stones", vol. 7 no.4
1962
1
Warren Area Chamber of Commerce publications - "The Cornplanter Grant", "Historical Sketch of Warren"
undated
1
Writings of Ernest C. Miller:
1959
Box
1
"Pennsylvania's Oil Industry" (pamphlet)
1959
1
"Speaking Historically...History Comes to Life" (newspaper clipping)
1961
1
"Speaking Historically...The Kinzua Bridge" (newspaper clipping)
1961
1
"Speaking Historically...Meet John Brown-Pennsylvania Citizen" (newspaper clipping)
1961
1
"Speaking Historically...Which Way History" (newspaper clipping)
1961
1
"Speaking Historically...Nearby Adventures in History and Gourmandizing" (newspaper clipping, Warren County Observer)
1963, March 12
1
"Speaking Historically...Have you seen seldom seen" (newspaper clipping)
1
"Speaking Historically...Index and Adieu" (newspaper clipping)
1963, April 11
1
"Speaking Historically...Mysteries To Be Solved" (newspaper clipping)
1962, March 7
1
"Some Notes for London Visitors" (newspaper clipping)
1963
2
Buttons: Capt. William Hasson of Oil City, Pennsylvania; "The Diamond Jubilee of Oil, Aug. 24-27, 1934, Titusville, Pa."
1934, undated
2
Elreco Oil - Oily News
1923, March, April
2
Elreco Oil - Price Schedule
1922, August 12
2
En-ar-co National News pamphlet
1923, December
2
Filmstrip, "Oil Town, U.S.A." by Coronet Magazine about Tomball, Texas
undated
2
Johnson's Lake Shore Home Magazine, (2 issues) with articles "Pictures Oildorado"
1886, June, October
2
Kilgore News Herald, 29th Annual Oil and Mail-Away Edition (newspaper)
1959, August 23
2
"Map of the Valley of Petroleum", compiled for Titusville Herald
undated
2
McLaurin, Joh J. papers (10 clippings concerning oil and Rockefeller; 4 letters concerning oil; Canadian Teachers Certificate; brochure with New Year's Greetings from Andrew Carnegie (1913); photo of John J. McLaurin (1921))
1913-1921
2
National Petroleum Association, Annual Banquet programs
1940, 1943
2
Pennsylvania Historical Association publications; "Negro in Pennsylvania History"; "Pennsylvania's Architecture", "Pennsylvania's Boundaries", "Pennsylvania Reformers from Penn to Pinchot"
1966-1970
2
Petroleum Age
1923, December 1
2
Post Cards with oil scenes
undated
2
"Problems in American Civilization: John D. Rockefeller, Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?", Readings Selected by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College
1949
2
Sinclair Refining Company publication, "Oil, the Evolution of an Industry"
1946
2
Standard Reserve Oil Company publication on Wyoming oil field
1903
2
Scrapbook: newspaper clippings (poems and obituaries) pasted on the pages of "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1878", Washington, Government Printing Office
1879
2
"Watchman, What of the Night? - 1918 versus 1945, an Exceprt from a Broadcast by Raymond Gram Swing," pamphlet by Grabhorn Press
1945
3
"Monthly Petroleum - Trade Report" (photostat of cover)
1879, March
3
"Drilling Contractor" (photostat of cover)
1944, November 15
3
"Drilling" (photostat and copy of cover)
1939, December
3
"Oil Weekly" (copy of cover)
1919, January 4
3
"Gas Engine" (copy of cover)
1898, June
3
Poem - "Oil on the Brain"
undated
3
Warren Academy of Sciences - Transactions, vol. 1, part 2
1908-1909
3
Newspaper, Houston Citizen
1951, January 11
3
Newspaper, Daily Oklahoman
1953, March 1
3
Newspaper, Titusville Herald
1959, August 24
4
Photographs: Miller, Ernest C. and Others
1959-1961, undated
Tintypes in Oil, by Ernest C. Miller
Box
4
Illustrations
undated
4
Manuscript
undated
4
Printer's Proof
undated
4
Research Notes
undated
Box
5
Mineral Industries periodical, vol. 27, no. 1
1957, October
5
Oil Centennial Inc. (correspondence, plan, printed material, etc.)
1959
5
Pennsylvania State Acts regarding oil and gas regulation (nos. 358 and 359)
1961
5
Program and menu for tribute luncheon to Pioneers of Pittsburgh
1956
5
Receipts and bills for oil well work, mainly for Peter Blocker and David Berry for wells 73 and 79
1866-1870
5
Turf-Cutting Machine advertisement (page from catalog)
circa 1962
5
Union Oil Company of California and Controlled Companies - Report and Accounts (2 bound volumes)
1934, 1936
6
"Family Travel Guide...Pennsylvania"
1963
6
"A Guide for Oil and Gass Operators in Canada"
1961
6
Invitation and Program: 40th Annual Banquet of 25-Year Club of the Petroleum Industry
1979
6
Magazine Clipping, "The Well That Won't Quit" (McClintock No. 1)
1952
6
News Clippings: "Museum at Irvine Step Nearer" and "Miss Sill a Valuable Assistant to Society", articles from Warren County Observer
1963
6
Newspaper: Annual Oil Supplement
1893, January 2
6
Program: 23rd Annual Banquet of 25-Year Club of the Petroleum Industry
1962
6
Program: Joint Annual Meeting - Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association and Bradford District Pennsylvania Oil Producers Association
1963
6
Pennsylvania History, vol 46 no. 4
1979, October
6
"Project 70" - pamphlet by Community Planning Services, Inc.
undated
6
Railroad flyers: "A Few Facts About Private Railroad Car 912" and Philadelphia & Erie R.R. schedule
undated
6
"Shaking Dice for $64,000", page from Petroleum Gazette
undated
6
Tourist map of the Seneca Highlands and Advertisment for Lobo Wolf Park, east of Kane, Pennsylvania
undated
6
West Virginia History, vol. 23, 25, no. 1, 3, 4
1962-1963
6
Writings of Ernest C. Miller: Remnants, book of short stories (8 copies)
1979
6
Writings of Ernest C. Miller: "Pennsylvania's Last Indian School" (reprint from Pennsylvania History)
1958
6
Writings of Ernest C. Miller: "Down the Rivers-A Rafting Journal of 1859-from Warren, PA., to Louisville, KY." edited by Miller (reprint from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine
1957
7
Esso Petroleum Company's 100 years in France (invitation, history, flyers, etc.)
1979
7
Field map of Bessemer Refining Company, Titusville, Pennsylvania
1918
7
Newspaper clipping: Indianapolis Star, "Home on Range Home of Energy", article by Jonathan Wolman about energy development in Wyoming
1979, January 14
7
"Petroleum Industry Series", Standard Oil Company of New York (chapters 1-12)
undated
7
Products Manual, Sales Department of General Petroleum Corporation of California
1937, January 1
7
Program and Invitation: Dedication Ceremony of the National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark - Drake Oil Well, Titusville, Pennsylvania
1979, October 21
8
"The Petroleum Situation", Chase Manhattan Bank
1964, October
8
Petroleum Times - Tulas International Petroleum Exposition Number
1953, April 3
8
Petroleum
1954, September
8
Lone Star Oilman
1919, March 8
8
Texas Parade, Vol. 11 no. 7
undated
8
Journal of Petroleum Technology
1949, January
8
The Bull Plug
1951, December 20
8
Western Oil & Refining
1959, June
8
Petroleum Reporter
1931, December
8
Drill Bit - Pulse of the Permian Basin
1953, May
8
Texas Mineral Resources
1917, October, December; 1918, January, March
8
National Oil Reporter - Texas Edition, sample pages
circa 1901
8
Petroleum Week, preview issue and announcement
1954, September 24
8
Petroleum Week
1955, February 18; May 13
8
Petroleum Week, First Issue in box
1955, July 8
8
Petrochemical Industry, vol. 1 no. 1
1958, June
8
Erdol und Teer
1931, August 25
8
Erdol und Kohle
1953, March
8
Boletin de Petroleo y Minas
1933, September
8
Revue Petrolifere
1931, April 4
8
Revue Petroliere
1953, February
9
"The Case of California's Disappearing Oil", Citizens Conservation Committee for Proposition 4
undated
9
"The Chemistry of Petroleum", American Petroleum Institute
1954
9
"Oil Conservation at Its Greatest and Best"
1955
9
"Oil for Today...and for Tomorrow"
1953
9
"A Thousand Dollar Egg, and the Hen That Laid It"
undated
9
Wall Charts - American Petroleum Institute (2 charts)
9
Mining and Oil Bulletin, monthly magazine of Chamber of Mines & Oil, California (2 issues)
1924, April; 1925, August
9
Oil Bulletin, monthly magazine of Chamber of Mines & Oil, California (2 issues)
1927, April, July
9
Titusville Morning Herald (facsimile of first issue, June 14, 1856)
undated
9
"In Flanders Fields", poem and advertisement for Liberty Bonds
1918?
9
Aviation: The Ordnance Sergeant, 10 issues
1941-1945
9
"In Flanders Fields", poem and advertisement for Liberty Bonds
1918?
10
A (6 sheets)
10
Angell, Cyrus D. (1 sheet)
10
Advertisement - first add for petroleum in U.S. (1 booklet)
10
Announcements, Invitations, etc. (35 invitations, 10 pamphlets, 1 photo, 4 sheets)
10
Arabian Oil, "The Arabian Ethos" (1 article)
10
Articles (6 articles)
10
Articles on petroleum (3 sheets)
10
Ashland Oil and Refining Co. - Historical (10 sheets)
10
Atlantic-Richfield Co. - Historical (11 sheets)
10
B (4 sheets)
10
Barbedette, Jean Marie, of Paris - oil collector (2 booklets, 58 sheets)
10
Bell, Grace (16 pages)
10
Beaton, Kendall - Shell Oil historian (4 sheets)
10
Beaty Well of Warren, Pennsylvania (21 sheets)
10
Bissell, George W. - in first oil company and early Peruvian oil work (81 sheets)
11
Bonded warehouse oil receipts (7 sheets)
1866-1867
11
Bovaird & Seyfang, Bradford, Pennsylvania (1 sheet)
11
Bly, Nellie - invented oil drum (1 book, 24 sheets)
11
Butcher & Singer (150 sheets)
11
C - oil history (15 sheets)
11
California Oil - history (3 sheets)
11
Canadian Oil - history (15 sheets)
11
Chautauqua County, New York - oil men (9 sheets)
11
China - first well, etc. (2 sheets)
11
Clarendon, Pennsylvania (2 sheets, 2 photos)
1882-1883
11
Coal Oil Johnny (18 sheets)
11
Cracking Plants - survey (15 sheets)
1932
11
Colonel Drake Hotel, Titusville, Pennsylvania (8 sheets)
11
Crude Oil Prices (4 sheets)
11
Culver, Charles V. - history (1 article, 18 sheets, 3 photos)
11
Darrah Letters (10 sheets)
11
Deep Wells (7 sheets)
11
Diaries of Levi Smith (10 sheets)
11
Dime Novels with oil themes (4 sheets)
11
Divesture (8 pamphlets and reports, many sheets)
11
Divining Rods (18 sheets)
11
Drake Well Park and Drake Well Advisory Board (152 sheets, 2 pamphlets)
12
Drake, Edwin L. - family charts (1 chart, 10 pages, 1 pamphlet)
12
Drake Well - when it was drilled (32 sheets)
12
E (6 sheets)
12
El-Tronics, Inc. - West Virginia wells (1 map, 10 sheets)
12
Emery, Lewis, Jr. (24 sheets)
12
Energy Situation (21 articles, 5 booklets, 53 sheets)
12
F (1 booklet, 40 sheets)
12
Ferris, A.C. - oil pioneer (1 article, 1 sheet)
12
Flightime Magazine (27 sheets)
12
Fraud (3 sheets)
12
G (1 booklet, 4 sheets, 1 map)
12
Gambling 1868-1869 (2 sheets)
12
Gas Wells and Gas Production, Warren, Pennsylvania (1 sheet)
12
Glade Oil Co. (1 photo)
12
Gauge Poles (2 sheets)
12
Grandin Well - second oil well (17 sheets)
12
Grasshopper Wells (2 photos, 4 sheets)
12
Gulf Oil Corp. (4 sheets)
12
H - re: Job Moses and Tobias Hirte (6 sheets)
12
Hall of Fame (6 sheets)
12
Hogan, Ben - wickedest man (3 sheets)
12
Hotels in Early Oil Region (1 sheet)
12
Hauranne, Ernst, - "A Frenchman's Tour of the Oil Regions in 1864", SPAN Magazine (1 sheet)
12
Imports (4 sheets)
12
Interviews (20 sheets)
1941-1942
12
J (2 sheets)
12
K - Roberts torpedo (1 article, 10 sheets)
12
Keelor Gas Well - largest well to 1907 (6 photos, 26 sheets)
12
"Standard Reserve Oil Company", folder on Wyoming oil field
1903
12
Programs of National Petroleum Association banquets
1940, September 19; 1943, September 21
13
Kendall Refining Co., Bradford, Pennsylvania (5 booklets, 1 photo, 2 sheets)
13
Kerosene at New Bedford, Massachusetts (1 sheet)
13
Kewanee Oil Co. - oldest independent producing company (1 booklet, 4 sheets)
13
Kier, Samuel M. - first refiner in North America (1 book, 1 broadside, 7 sheets)
13
Kinzua, Pennsylvania (4 sheets)
13
L (12 sheets)
13
LaBrea Tar Pits, Los Angeles (1 sheet)
13
Lawrence, Albert A. (1 letter)
13
Leases (12 leases)
1860s
13
Levy Estate, Titusville, Pennsylvania (1 sheet)
13
Locke, Robert D. - first well in China (1 sheet)
13
Lutz, Edward - oil pioneer (1 sheet)
13
Mc (3 sheets)
13
McClintock No. 1 - oldest producing oil well in the US (1 sheet)
13
McLaurin, John J. - oil reporter, author (11 sheets)
13
M (6 sheets)
13
Marketing (11 sheets)
13
Mather, John A. - photographer (2 sheets)
13
Mead Island Wells, Warren, Pennsylvania (2 electric logs, 3 sheets)
13
Metric System (2 booklets, 4 sheets)
13
Millard, Oliver R. - re: Drake Well (6 sheets)
13
Miller Wells, Warren, Pennsylvania (3 complete electric well surveys)
13
"World Struggle for Oil" Movie (3 sheets)
13
Mowbray, George M. - pioneer petroleum engineer (4 sheets)
13
Mud - for drilling (2 booklets)
13
Muir, William A. - oil pioneer 1851-1954 (2 sheets)
13
Munchausen, Philosopher's Stone, and Gull Creek Grand Consolidated Oil Company - early oil humor (8 sheets)
13
Murder (and Crime) (25 sheets)
13
Music - sheet music relating to early oil (1 booklet)
13
N (1 booklet, sheets)
13
National Petroleum Association (18 sheets)
13
Natural Gas (1 booklet, 1 sheet)
13
Noble & Delameter Well (1 book, 11 sheets)
13
North America's First Oil Well - research, etc. (60 sheets)
14
North Penn Refining Co., Clarendon, Pennsylvania (24 sheets)
14
North Warren Oil (2 photos, 1 sheet)
14
O (11 sheets)
14
Oil Centennial, Inc., Year 1959 - includes press passes, photographs, programs (2 books, 15 sheets, 1 thick folder, 100 items)
14
Oil and Warren County, Pennsylvania - history (1 article)
14
Oil Centennial in Warren County, Pennsylvania - history (3 sheets)
14
Oil City, Pennsylvania (1 booklet)
14
Oil City, Pennsylvania, Derrick Newspaper - history (48 sheets)
14
Oil Pits - history (2 booklets, 34 sheets, 4 large photos)
14
Oil and Gas Developments in Pennsylvania - history (8 booklets)
1969-1976
14
Oil Exchanges (3 sheets)
14
Oil Mine - on Two Mile Run near Franklin, Pennsylvania (1 sheet)
14
Oil Shale (1 booklet, 3 sheets)
14
Oil Spring - at Cuba, New York (1 booklet, 37 sheets)
14
Oil Stock Certificates (2 certificates)
14
Oil Towns - early locations (1 sheet)
14
Oil Well Supply Co. (1 booklet)
14
Paria Petroleum Company Ltd., Trinidad 1867 (3 sheets)
14
Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association - 1965 hydraulic fracture boom (1 booklet)
14
Pennsylvania Refining Co. - history (2 large sheets)
15
Pennsylvania Oil Trends (55 sheets)
15
Pennzoil Inc. - history (5 booklets, 1 sheet)
15
Petroleum Books Offered by Erie Book Store, Erie, Pennsylvania (1 booklet)
15
Petroleum (1 booklet)
15
Petroleum Age Magazine (3 sheets)
15
Petroleum Producers' Union, An Appeal to the Executive of Pennsylvania (30 sheets)
1878
15
Photographs (63 photos, 2 sheets)
15
Petrochemicals (1 sheet)
15
Pine Grove Township in Warren County, Pennsylvania (1 sheet)
15
Pipelines (11 sheets)
15
Pithole City, Pennsylvania (29 sheets)
15
Pollution (6 sheets)
15
Pond Freshet (2 sheets)
15
Ponton, John (3 sheets)
15
Postage Stamps (1 sheet of Oil Centennial stamps)
15
Prentice, Frederic - producer (5 sheets)
15
Production (9 sheets)
15
Pure Oil Co. (1 booklet, 1 sheet)
15
Quaker State Oil Refining Co. - history and details (4 booklets, 17 sheets)
16
R (5 sheets)
16
"Railroads in the Early Oil Regions", paper by Ralph F. Hirst (10 sheets)
16
Refining Engineering (6 sheets)
16
Refineries in Warren County, Pennsylvania (1 booklet, 7 sheets)
16
Refineries and Natural Gas Plants (1 booklet)
16
Roberts Torpedo Co. (1 booklet)
16
Rockefeller, John D. (1 booklet, 2 sheets)
16
Rose Hill Seminar (5 booklets, 53 sheets)
16
Rouse, Henry R. - pioneer (1 photo of will, 1 poem, 50 sheets)
16
Royalties (1 sheet)
16
Ruffner Well (10 sheets)
16
S (30 sheets)
16
Secondary Recovery (2 booklets, 7 sheets)
16
Sibley, Joseph C. - worked for Standard Oil in House of Representatives (2 sheets)
16
Smith, Uncle Billy - drilled Drake Well (1 booklet)
16
South Improvement Co. (9 sheets)
16
Speculation (1 booklet)
1959-1960
16
Standard Oil Co. and the Standard Oil Trust (1 book, 12 sheets)
16
"Striking Oil", Century Magazine (9 sheets)
1883, May-July
16
"Success at Oil Creek", U.S. Government booklet with many errors (1 booklet, 44 sheets)
16
Sun Oil Co. (1 book, 1 booklet, 2 sheets)
17
Superior Oil Works at Warren, Pennsylvania - plant map, reports, deeds, financial records (about 150 sheets)
17
Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania - production (2 sheets)
17
Swanson E. - compiler of oil and gas bibliography (6 sheets)
17
T - mainly Texaco material (1 book, 1 booklet, 4 sheets)
17
Tank cars (1 booklet, 7 sheets)
17
Tidioute, Pennsylvania - early oil town (1 booklet, 2 broadsides, 31 photos, 13 sheets)
17
Titusville (Pennsylvanis) Herald - first daily newspaper in oil regions (1 booklet, 5 sheets)
17
Transportation (1 booklet, 5 sheets)
17
Thoenen, Dr. Eugene D. - West Virginia University (6 sheets)
17
United Refining Co. of Warren, Pennsylvania (4 booklets, 13 sheets)
17
Unclassified (9 sheets)
17
Underground Gas Storage in Pennsylvania (1 booklet with maps)
17
V, re: Vaseline (1 sheet)
17
Venezuelan Oil (23 sheets)
17
W, re: Bolivar, New York (20 sheets)
17
Warren County Oil Co. Stock Certificates, etc. (6 certificates)
18
Warren & Farnsworth Railroad - re: Cherry Grove oil excitement of 1882-1883 (1 sheet, 2 photos)
18
"Warren County and Its Relation to Early Oil", by E.C. Miller (28 sheets)
18
Warren County, Pennsylvania, Maps (12 maps, 3 sheets)
18
Warren Oil Co. of Pennsylvania - brokerage oil company, 1917-1921 (1 booklet, 3 photos, 1 stock share)
18
Warren Oil Exchange (1 negative, 3 sheets)
18
Washington County, Pennsylvania, Wells (1 sheet)
18
West Penn Oil Co., Inc. - brokerage firm, Warren, Pennsylvania (about 350 pages)
18
Wolf's Head Oil Refining Co., Oil City, Pennsylvania (5 sheets)
18
Yost, G.W.N. - early tank cars (9 sheets)
18
Youngsville-Sugar Grove Oil Field, Warren County, Pennsylvania (5 sheets)
18
Code book used by special investigation agents of the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association, showing oil brand names and owning companies, here and abroad (about 120 pages)
18
"Plant Engineering's Exclusive Chart, Interchangeable Lubricants" (3 copies)
undated
18
"Tables of Useful Information", Exxon Corporation
1974
18
"Viscosity Equivalents", Sun Oil Company
1973
19
"Pennsylvania Lubes and Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association" (3-ring binder of correspondence, reports, publications, etc.)
1942-1952
19
Book: Birth Place of an Army, by John B. Trussell
1976
19
Book: Pipe Line, Machlin, Milt
1976
19
"Drake Well Oil Lease Masterplan", Slocum, Stephen D. And Davidson, Michael L.
1976, September
19
"The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: A History", pamphlet by Roy F. Nichols
1967
Periodicals:
Box
20
Journal of Erie Studies, vol. 6 no. 1
1977, Spring
20
My Country, vol. 11 no.2
1977, Spring
20
Pennsylvania History
1947, July; 1976, October; 1977, January, April, July; 1978, October; 1979, January, April
20
Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine
1976, October; 1977, January, April, July
Box
21
Book: Charles Lockhart, 1818-1905, Short Autobiographical Sketch (limited edition)
1965
21
"Halliburton and the Life of a Well". Halliburton Company, Dallas, Texas
1980
21
Calendar: Esso, 100 Ans d'Histoire en France (with annotations)
1980
21
Americana Catalogue 34, Mcihael Ginsburg Books
21
The American West, Catalog 28, R.M. Weatherford
21
Correspondence: Charles J. Wood to Ernest C. Miller (with attachements
1981, October 21
21
Correspondence: Ernest C. Miller to Charles Whipp (photocopy, with attachments)
1980, July 21
21
"Geology - Annals of the Former World", 2 articles from The New Yorker
1980, October 20, 27
21
Off Shore Drilling (correspondence, patent, 1 article, 2 periodicals, 4 photographs of off-shore rigs in Oil Creek, Allegheny River at Tidioute, and Gulf of Mexico)
1969-1981
21
Invitation: Drake Well Museum dedication of the oil lease exhibit
1980, August 27
21
Invitations: 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry, 41st and 42nd Annual Banquets
1980, November 10; 1981, November 9
21
Lecture: "Petroleum Against Protection", Hancock, James D.
1883, January 16
21
"The French Collection, Jean Barbedette, Retired After 40 Years with Exxon's Affiliate in France, Possesses an Unusual Collection of Oil Industry Memorabilia", Fleischer, Leonard, form The Lamp
1979, Winter
21
Manuscript: "History of United" [United Refining Company] (photocopy)
21
Newspaper: Oil Daily
1981, October 21
21
Patent for Improvement in Kerosene Burning Fluids, Abraham Gesner (photocopy)
1854, June 27
21
Periodicals: Pennsylvania History
1980, October; 1981, January, April, July
21
Program: "Drake Days", Titusville, Pennsylvania
1981, August 27-30
21
Program: Kinzua Dam Vacation Bureau, Ninth Annual Membership Dinner, Warren, Pennsylvania
1976, November 16
21
Program: Three Flags Ceremony, Warren, Pennsylvania
1980, May 26
21
General Asphalt Company, Annual Report
1904-1907
21
Thesis "Utilizing the Trust Department's Resources for Providing Management Service to Owners of Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Interests", Johnson, Darrell L., National Graduate Trust School conducted by the American Bankers Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1981, August
22
Book: The Story of Johnstown: Its Early Settlement, Rise and Progress, Industrial Growth, and Appaling Flood on May 31st, 1889, McLaurin, J.J.
1890
22
Book: Wildcatting from Pennsylvania to Texas, Neely, Harold G.
1965
22
Book:, A Century of Progress: The Story of a Family Business, Oldaker, John
1959
23
Circular on oils, New York
1860, September 1
23
Samuel M. Kiers "Petroleum" or "Rock Oil" - print
23
Roberts torpedo company and lawsuit - letters, legal documents, etc.
1871-1883
23
Oil Creek Railroad Company - 1st mortgage bond
23
Letter and price list for oil well engines and boilers
1894, April 9
23
Hughes, S.B. - correspondence
1892-1901
23
Letters and checks of early oil operators
1893-1901
23
Bill - L.H. Fassett Engine & Machine Oil
1890, June 2
23
Cherokee Nation - oil lease items
1900-1910
23
Bills due - P.A. Gilbert-Producers Oil. Co.
23
Trow, W.D. - correspondence concerning investment in U.O.&G.
1930
23
Babbitt, L. Rex - letter to "Dear Family" about Babbitt genealogy (Miami, Florida)
1948
23
Advertisement, history, and reports of progress of Texas United Oil Co., Globe Crude Oil Co., and the C.W. Savery Securities Co.
23
Letter addressed to Mr. Hughes
1866, October 31
23
Permit for Oil Transportation issued to Johnson and Raine by the Internal Revenue Service
1867, October 17
23
Chalmers, Lewis - correspondence
1872, January 14; 1883, September 24
23
Deeds - D.N. McBeth, Sheriff, to Peter Peterson
1861, May 22
23
Deeds - In Supplement, D.N. McBeth in power of John J. Rice
1871
23
Deeds - D.N. McBeth, Sheriff, to George Wiseman
1870 (or 1890), December 6
23
Deeds - R.H. For[illegible] to Tho. Ogden, E.H. Erickson, Peter Olson, D.N. McBeth, and Tho. W. Layget
1870, December 6
23
Deeds - George Wiseman to [illegible] Miller, T.W. Legget, R.M. Folger, Andrew Graham, D.N. McBeth, and Jacob Miller
1871, October 22
23
Deeds - Benjamin F. Pettis to Trustees for the Imperial Silver Quarries Co. Limited
1868, July 10
23
Deeds - Daniel Davidson to Tho. Ogden, E.H. Erickson, Peter Olson, D.N. McBeth, and Tho. W. Legget
1870, October 11
23
Deeds - Anderson, Peter Peterson, William Brown, Thomas Johnson, etc. to Daniel Davidson
1870, October 1
23
Sheriff's Certificates - A.D. Amos or Amot; J.B. Scott (3 items)
1878, May 25
23
Memorandum of Agreement - D.N. McBeth, the Haight Claim
1871
23
Memorandum of Agreement - Stockholders of the [illegible] Co. for the sale of their stock
1871
23
Notice of Location - Jefferson Claim
1878, August 22
23
Notice of Location - Eugenie Tunnel
1878, August 22
23
Copy of Decree and Order of Sale, Scandinavian Canon
1870, April 14
23
Isabelle Gold and Silver Mining Company Limited - Director's Report
Statements:
Box
23
Oliver Ames & Son
1869, February
23
Abraham R. Van Nest & Co.
1869, February 27
23
S. Sherlock & Co.
1871, August 4
23
J.B. Congle
1871, October 8
23
Portland Gas Light Co.
1873, March 31
23
Willamet Iron Works
1873, November 24
23
Portland Gas Light Co.
1873, November 26
23
W. Jackson & Co.
1873, December 31
23
Dressed and Undressed Lumber
1874
23
Corbett, Failing & Co.
1874, January 22
23
Northrup & Thompson
1874, March 17
23
Smith Brothers Iron & Brass Works
1874, March 31
23
John R. Foster
1874, March 31
23
Henry Lueg, Dr. Blacksmith and Machinist
1874, April 2
23
Sorenson & Taylor
1874, April 30
23
Everding & Farrell
1874, August 3
23
W. Jackson & Co.
1874, August 13
23
Portland Water Company
1874, September 11
23
C.E. Beebe & Co.
1874, September 18
23
Drummond & Long
1874, November 27
23
Portland Gas Light Co.
1874 November 30
23
Goldsmith & Loewenberg
1874, December 28
23
Portland Gas Light Co.
1874, December 31
23
Sorenson & Taylor
1875, March
23
Sorenson & Taylor
1875, March 1
23
John Newman & Co.
1875, September 24
23
Wm. Braden, Dr.
1875, October 1
23
Portland Gas Light Co.
1876, February 29
23
T.A. Davis & Co.
1876, March 11
23
Zan Brothers & Co.
1876, March 11
23
Portland Wood and Coal Yard
1876, March 31
23
Oregon Furniture Mg.
1876, October 31
23
Corbitt & Mccleay
1877, November 8
23
M. Seller & Co.
1878, June 1
23
Foreign & Domestic Dry Goods
1878, June 30
23
California Fast Freight Line
1880, March 24
23
Zan Brothers
1886, January 21
23
Stubbs & Lawrence
189?, February 2
23
Zan Brothers
1890, August 2
23
Zan Brothers
1890, August 5
23
Habighorst & Connant
1890, November 1
23
H.T. Hudson
1890, November 26
23
H.T. Hudson
1890, November 28
23
L.H. Parker, Agent, Fairbanks Standard Scales
1890, December 2
23
Stubbs & Lawrence
1890, December 3
23
Stubbs & Lawrence
1890, December 8
23
Zan Brothers
1890, December 19
23
Zan Brothers
1890, December 22
23
Meston & Dygert
1890, December 24
23
William J. Riley
1891, February 2
23
Stubbs & Lawrence
1891, February 26
23
Stubbs & Lawrence
1891, February 27
23
City Water Works
1891, April 3
23
Waterhouse & Lester Co.
1891, July 17
23
Honeyman, DeHart & Co.
1891, July 28
23
Honeyman, DeHart & Co.
1891, July 29
23
Honeyman, DeHart & Co.
1891, July 29
23
Honeyman, DeHart & Co.
1891, July 30
23
Honeyman, DeHart & Co.
1891, July 30
23
Waterhouse & Lester Co.
1891, July 30
23
Waterhouse & Lester Co.
1891, July 31
23
John Barrett Co.
1891, September 19
23
H.T. Hudson
1891, September 25
23
Chas. H. Dodd
1891, September 25
23
H.T. Hudson
1891, September 25
23
Chas. H. Dodd
1891, September 28
23
John Barrett Co.
1891, September 30
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, September 30
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, September 30
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, October 30
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, October 31
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, October 31
23
H.T. Hudson
1891, October 31
23
Chas. H. Dodd & Co.
1891, October 31
23
H.T. Hudson
1891, October 31
Box
23
Simeon Butterfield, receipt for one barrel sperm oil
1839, May 29
23
Mason's Extra Sperm Oil, advertising curcular of the New England Oil Manufacturing Co.
23
J. Kittredge & Co., four page circular, "Camphene and Burning Fluid"
1851, August 15
23
Agency of the Boston Kerosene Oil Company, circular, Samuel Downer, Proprietor, stating that they have so many orders that they cannot say when the order will be filled
1859, January 4
23
Agency of the Boston Kerosene Oil Company, circular, Samuel Downer, Proprietor, stating an order received is now ready to deliver
1859, March 4
23
Boston Kerosene Oil Company, circular, stating that the company can now furnish oil
1859, November 7
23
Downer Kerosene Oil Company, certificate of the company, election of officers, reorganization of the company as a corporation; statement that kerosene should not be mixed with camphene, rosin oils, coal tar oils, and fusil oil
23
New York Kerosene Oil Company, circular letter announcing a still further reduction in price on Kerosene oil, issed by Cozzens & Co.
1861, October 14
23
Pure Oil Company: letter from John G. Lamont, Amsterdam, to J.D. Ley, Titusville, discussing crude oil market, visit from Ida Tarbell's brother, etc.
1898, October 30
23
Pithole: letter from George J. Levake, superintendent of Amazon Oil & Mining Co., Pithole, Pennsylvania, to E.P. Burt, Ontario Iron Works, Oswego, New York, applying for a position
1866, May 16
23
Pithole: handwritten notice of stockholders meeting for lease no. 13, Rooker Farm, Pithole; signed by R.W. Evans
1866, January 18
23
Letter: J.G. Smedley to P.S. Pease, ordering 10 barrels of oil
1857, August 17
23
Letter: Will to Bro. Frank, on P.S. Pease letterhead
1858, March 28
23
Receipt: from John Cowdrey by Thomas L. DeKay for $175
1865, March 4
23
Letter: James Boys to Thomas Clemons, on Huston Oil Company letterhead
1865, June 13
23
Diary of Emily L. Miller (titled "Sage") and 9 other items
1891
23
Letter, from Mrs. A.H. Bassett to John Nuby, Rock Springs, Wyoming
1881, April 12
23
Correspondence - J.C. Verser to D.F.A. Wheelock (6 items)
1926-1927
23
Correspondence - A.A. Colburn to Friend John
1880, November 17
Aviation Material:
Box
24
Invitation, the John Fritz Medal Board of Award presentation of the medal to Orville Wright
1920, May 7
24
Publication - Lindbergh's Decorations and Trophies
1935
24
"Problems of Aeroplane Improvement"
1918
24
"Catalogue of the Aeronautical Exposition at Madison Square Garden and the 69th Regiment Armory, March 1-15, 1919", Manufacturer's Aircraft Association Inc.
1919
24
"The Wright Brothers," by Omega G. East, National Park Services, reprint of 1961 edition
1963
24
Chester F. Carter items (telegram, certificate, agreement, letters, 6 photographs, 1 design drawing of biplane)
1928
24
"The Mess Kit", vol.1, no. 11, France, published for the soldiers of the AEF
1919, June
24
Hewitt, Peter Cooper, letter from, New York
1911, May 13
24
Longren Aircraft Corporation, Topeka, Kansas, advertisement for aircraft with folding wings for storage
24
Photographs of early plane that flew a coffin to a funeral, from San Jose, California
24
"Business Takes to the Airways", pamphlet on Martin Airport Corporation of Washington
1930?
24
"Opportunity is Now in the Air", procpectus of Union Airlines Inc., owners and operators of West Coast Air Transport Company
24
"Coast to Coast by Plane and Train", Transcontinental Air Tranport Inc, map and schedules
1929, October 15
24
"Fly Overland Airway", San Francisco, price list
1929?
24
"Man's Desire to Fly is Universal", Universal Air Lines System, map, schedule, and price list
1929?
24
"Travel by Air", Western Air Express, pamphlet
1929?
24
Western Air Express, schedules and tariffs
1930, March 16
24
West Coast Air Transport Corporation, general information
1929 or 1930
24
"Aviation Album", Popular Mechanics
1953
24
"Notes and Rules for Pilots and Crews", United States of America War Office
1917
24
"The Genesis of the Aviation Industry in North Texas", by E.C. Barksdale, University of Texas, Bureau of Business Research
1958
24
"Aircraft Spotter - Modern Military Planes in Active Service" by Lester Ott, publication
1941
24
The First Nonstop Coast-to-Coast Flight and the Historic T-2 Airplane, by Louis S. Casey, Smithsonian Annals of Flight, vol. 1 no. 1
1964
24
"Notes on Rigging for Air Mechanics", Army Air Service manual
1917
24
"Akron and USS Akron - World's Largest Airship", edited by H.H. Harriman, pamphlet
1931
24
"Panel Discussion on Aviation Safety Before the Aviation Writers Association" (mimeograph copy)
1957
24
"Pilot's Flying Log Book", E.W.C. Perry, 2nd Lieutenant
1913, August 9
24
"J&S Catalogue 29 - Aviation", by James Warner Bellah
1976
Box
25
Harsell, B.L. (dealer in petroleum) - Letterbook
1866-1868
25
Lithographs - James Cook's Journeys (maps and illustrations with text in French)
undated
25
"The Oil Pits", Notebook no. 4 (manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, etc.)
1941-1958
25
Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, Oil and Gas in Oklahoma (bound volume)
1928
26
Pass from 1906 San Francisco earthquake issued to Miss W. Hilton
1906, April 24
26
Petroleum - Oil Companies - Tarr Farm circular
undated
26
Petroleum - Oil Companies - Tidioute & Warren receipts
1868-1870
26
Texas Petroleum News
1919-1920
27
Tintypes in Oil draft (notebook no. 1)
1958
27
"America's First Oil Well-Who Drilled It?" research (notebooks no. 2-3)
1861-1960
33
Business Ledger: Elcho Oil Company (Ohio; Indiana; West Virginia)
1896-1906
33
Business Ledger: Palisade Mines (California?)
1888-1891
33
Business Ledger: Quran Run Oil Company (Tidioute, Pennsylvania)
1896-1897
33
Fire Investigation Reports (bound volume) regarding U.S. and Canadian fires that took place 1876-1913
1910-1913
33
Three-ring Binder: Pennsylvania Specifications, Techinical Information, Purchasing Information, etc. regarding oil products
34
Scrapbook (letters, newspaper clippings) concerning John J. McLaurin
1897-1905
34
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings written by John J. McLaurin
undated
34
Scrapbook: "Victory in the Air Circus" (newspaper clippings, programs, leaflets, etc.), compiled for United China Relief and British War Relief Society
1941
35
Business Ledger: Brooklyn Oil Refinery
1868
Art:
Box
36
Calendar with copy of woodcut, "Excursion to the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania", published by Titusville Trust Company
1945
36
Engravings of Artesian Well equipment (7 items) (French language)
undated
36
Etchings (2 items) regarding Edwin L. Drake and Mystery or 646 oil well, published by Pennsylvania Bank & Trust Company, descriptions by Ernest C. Miller
undated
36
Etchings (10 items) regarding Pennsylvania oil towns, locations, and people, published by Titusville Trust Company
undated
36
Print of woodcut showing oil production near Modena, Italy, about 1540-1550
1950
Box
36
Business Ledger: Elcho Oil Company
1898-1904
36
Petroleum Gazette and Mineral Reporter - photographic reprduction (negative and positive) of 1st page of vol. 1 no. 6, 1865)
undated
36
Oil Daily and Petroleum Observer oil centennial issues (bound together), also contains maps of Valley of Petroleum and Pithole, Pennsylvania
1959
Artifacts:
Box
37
Drinking Glass, souvenir of Drake Well centennial
1959
37
China Plate with picture of oil well, Keeler no. 5, Bartlesville, Indian Territory
undated
37
Metal Platter (round) with AACS (American Airline Continental Service) logo
undated
37
Mummy Wrapping fragment
undated
37
Canvas Apron, "Oilmen's Bar-B-Que", souvenir of "Oil's First Century"
1959
Maps:
Box
38
Anchor Oil Company lands
1882
38
Anchor Oil Company's Addition to the Town of Garfield
1880
38
Cherry-Grove Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
undated
38
Stoneham Oil District, Warren County, Pennsylvania
1880
38
Topographical Maps of Pennsylvania (4 items) and New York (1 item)
1908-1927
Box
38
Lithograph, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, "Oil Transport-Before Steel", by Orison MacPherson (rolled)
undated
Newspapers:
Box
38
American Citizen
1866, December 10
38
American Journal of Mining
1866, May 19
38
[Houston, Texas] Citizen - Spindletop Edition
1954, January 11
38
[Beaumont, Texas] Enterprise - Lucas Gusher Memorial Edition
1941, October 5
38
Houston Chronicle
1959, August 23
38
Houston Post - "Oil's 100th Anniversary"
1959, August 23
38
Liberty Vindicator[Texas]
1954, June 24
38
Oil City Blizzard (scattered issues)
1886-1912
38
Oil News
1951, September 10
38
Petroleum Gazette
1899, November
38
Pithole Daily Record
1867, September 5
Photographs:
Box
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - Frazer or U.S. Oil Company, Pithole
1864
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - John Benninghoff Farm,
1865
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - Pioneer Run Creek
1865
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - Pithole after fire of August 2, 1866
1866
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - Red Hot, Shamburg Field
1879
38
Petroleum - Oil Field - Tidioute
1871
Box
38
Prints of illustrations (2 items) by Fred Cole: "The Discovery at Sand Creek" and "Shacktown in Corsicana-Powell", issued by Dowell Incorporated
undated
39
Map: "Oil Lands of Jonathan Watson, Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania"
1860
39
Newspapers - Oil City Derrick (scattered issues, includes assassination of President Garfield)
1881-1912
39
Newspapers - Titusville Herald
1919, January 17
39
Newspapers - Titusville Herald - "One Hundred Years pf Oil"
1959, August 24
39
Newspapers - Titusville Herald - 1959 Review Edition
1960, January 1
39
Newspapers - Titusville Morning Herald (scattered issues)
1870-1880
40
Stereocards showing views of Pennsylvania oil wells, fields, towns, etc.
41
Audio Record (45 rpm) by The Men of Ivy, Muskingum College, Ohio - "Pit-Hole City" and "Lovers Never Have to Say Goodbye"
undated
41
Audiotapes (2), reel-to-reel, "90th Annuversary Drake Well"
1949, August 27
41
Audiotapes (2), reel-to-reel, "Oil Centennial Terrain Model Presentation"
circa 1959
41
Audiotape, reel-to-reel, "Interview with Miss Gertrude Dee Thomas, Meadville, Pennsylvania, regarding her grandfather, Rev. D.S. Steadman, Pithole's famous minister", conducted by Ernest C. Miller
1958, July 14

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Container(s) Description Dates
Box
28
Article: "Across the Wild Western Wilderness, or, A Trip to San Francisco", by Jasper T. Jennings, from The Growing World (includes information about Pennsylvania oil regions)
circa 1880
28
Booklet: Bovard & Seyfang Manufacturing Co. Special Catalog, "Everything for Oil and Gas Wells"
1914
28
Booklet: "Centennial Bibliography", by Walter Rundell, reprint from Business History Review, contains "Annotated Selections on the History of Petroleum Industry in the United States"
1959
28
Booklet: "Document sur le petrole du Sahara", by Andre Labarthe
1957
28
Booklet: "Locating Oil by the Use of Chemicals", by F.S. Kirk
1926
28
Circulars: "En-Ar-Co National News"
1924, May, June
28
Circulars: La Reforma Mines, Lower California, Mexico, "Records in Gold and Silver of a Few Great Mining Lodes in Mexico"
undated
28
Circulars: ISO-VIS Motor Oil, Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
undated
28
Circulars: Petroleum Carbon
undated
28
Circulars: "What's Your Mileage?", Sinclair Refining Company
1928
28
Interoffice Correspondence - to Sam Gregg, from J.W. Brancato: analysis to oil from Chodar Well at Pithole
1972, October 27
28
Stepping Stones, Warren County Historical Society, vol. 17 No. 1
1973, January
28
Auction Catalogue: "The Library of Robert Hoe, Parts I&II"
1912
28
"The Industry Nobody Really Knows", by Craig Thompson, Petroleum Today>, Vol. 6 No. 3
1965
28
Newspaper: Titusville Herald
1973, March 23
28
Lubrication, Vol. 12, No. 1 (bound edition)
1926, January
28
Pennsylvania History, Vol. 39 No. 4; Vol. 40 No. 1
1972-1973
28
Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 55 No.4; Vol. 56 No. 1
1972-1973
28
Reports: Public Relations Conference Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Affiliated Companies
1947
28
Reports: Public Relations Conference Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Affiliated Companies
1949
28
Petroleum Today
1965, Summer
28
The Practical of Spiritualism; Biographical Sketch of Abraham James; Historic Description of His Oil-Well Discoveries in Pleasantville, PA. Through Spirit Direction, by J.M. Peebles (photocopy)
1868

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Container(s) Description Dates
Box
29
Biographical: Curley, W.S.
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Fairless, J.N.
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Good, Barton
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Hafer, George
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Hastings, Bill
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Mason, Freddy L.
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Pearson, (Dr.)
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Pidcock, C.
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Sinclair, ?
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Sternberg, Charley
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Willard, John
1935-1938
29
Biographical: Yergey, Dan
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Keystone Pipe Line
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Allegheny Pump Station
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Berks Station
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Boxing Line
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Casing
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Culverts
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Dams
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Delaware Division Canal
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Delaware River Crossing
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Equipment
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Gettysburg Station
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Knepper Pump Station
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Latrobe
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Line Walkers
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Old Canal
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Crossing
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Debris
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Ditches
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Parts
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Tap
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Pipe Line Tunnel
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Raritan River Crossing
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Road Markers
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Schuylkill River Crossing
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Scraper Scenes
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Scraper Trap
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Scrapers
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Setting Gate
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Temporary Pipe Line
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Test Rubbers
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Tie-In Welds
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Tube Turns
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Watson Pump Station
1935-1938
29
Petroleum-Company-Sun Oil: Work Gangs
1935-1938
29
Unidentified
1935-1938

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Container(s) Description
Maps (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Topographic and Geological Survey)
Box
30
#16-16A - Corry, Youngsville, Titusville, Tidioute
30
#17-17A - Warren Kinzua, Sheffield, Kane
30
#18-18A - Oil City, Tionesta, Foxburg, Clarion
30
#19-19A - Marienville, Hallton, Brookville, DuBois
30
#21 - Zelienople, Butler, Sewickley, New Kensington
30
#22 - Kittanning, Rural Valley, Freeport, Elders Ridge
30
#23 - Smicksburg, Punxsutawney, Indiana, Barnesboro
30
#24 - Greensburg, Latrobe, Connells Ville, Donegal
30
#25 - Carnegie, Pittsburgh, Amity, Brownsville
30
#26 - Stoneboro, Franklin, Mercer, Hilliard
30
#28 - Kinsman, Shenango, Youngstown, Neshannock
30
#29 - Columbiana, New Castle, Wellsville, Beaver
30
#30 - Steubenville, Burgetts Town, Wheeling, Claysville
30
#31 - Cameron, Rogersville, Littleton, Mannington
30
#32 - Waynesburg, Masontown, Blacksville, Morgantown
30
#33 - New Florence, Johnstown, Somerset, Windber
30
#34 - Uniontown, Confluence, Bruceton, Accident
30
#35 - Meyersdale, Berlin, Grantsville, Frostburg
30
#36 - Coudersport, Genesse, Emporium, Conrad
30
#37 - Edensburg, Hollidaysburg, Bedford, Everett
30
#40 - Hyndman, Clearville, Flintstone, Paw Paw
Box
31
Brochure: "Petrex", Oil-Water Separator Cover System
1982
31
National Geographic, Special Report
1981, February
31
NPM (National Petroleum News)
1970-1975
31
Pennsylvania History, Vol. 48 No. 4; Vol. 49 No. 1-3
1981-1982

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Container(s) Description Dates
Box
32
Newspaper Clipping: "Cowpuncher Slugs It Out With Prairie Winter"
1978
32
Newspaper Clipping on Scheide, John Hinsdale
1983
32
Writings of Ernest C. Miller: newspaper clippings
1983

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Container(s) Description Dates
Box
32
Invitation: 43rd Annual Banquet, 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry
1982, November 8
32
Newspaper clippings (some in French)
circa 1982
32
Pennsylvania History
1982, October; 1983, January, April
32
French magazine
1982, Autumn

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Box
32
Correspondence: Drake Well 125th-year Anniversary
1984
32
Invitation and Program: 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry - 44th Annual Banquet
1983
32
Newspaper Clipping: "Former Oil Field Worker Builds Model Drilling Rig"
1982
32
Notebook advertising Otto-Cupler Torpedo Company
undated
32
Periodicals: Pennsylvania History Vol. 50 nos. 3, 4; vol. 51 no. 1
1983-1984

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Box
32
Correspondence: Drake Well 125th-year Anniversary
1984
32
Newspaper: Titusville Herald special edition - "125 Years of Oil"
1984, August 27
32
Pamphlets: Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation (2 items)
circa 1984
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 51 no. 2
1984, April
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 51 no. 3, with book review of Ernest C. Miller's History and Development of the Petroleum Industry in Warren County, Pennsylvania
1984, July

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Box
32
Book review (galley) of Ernest C. Miller's History and Development of the Petroleum Industry in Warren County, Pennsylvania
1984
32
Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York - program and folder for 5th Annual Meeting
1985
32
Invitation and Program: 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry - 45th Annual Banquet
1984
32
Pamphlets: Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation (2 items)
circa 1984
32
Pamphlets: "Halliburton and the Life of a Well"
1980
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 51 no. 4, vol. 52 nos. 1-3
1984-1985
32
Program for Dedication of Drake Oil Well, a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
1979, October 21

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Box
32
Correspondence
1971
32
Newspaper Clipping: "Story of Drake's Well Is Going On the Road"
undated
32
Writings of Ernest C. Miller: "Looking Backwards...The Allegheny Pilot" (newspaper clipping)
1986, June 21

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Box
32
American History Illustrated, with article "The Rise and Fall of Pithole", by Albert Castel
1982, April
32
Article (photocopy) "Toward a Rational Strategy for Oil Exploration", from Scientific American
1981, January
32
Invitation and Program: 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry - 46th Annual Banquet
1985
32
Newspaper Clippings: Drake Well, petroleum, etc.
1982-1984
32
Pennsylvania Geology
1985, October
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 52 no. 4; vol. 53 no. 1-4
1985-1986
32
Pennsylvania Heritage
1983, Summer; 1984, Summer
32
Press Release: Pennbank merger announcement
circa 1982
32
Steppin' Out in Kinzua Country
1986, April
32
Tiona Quality Oils - Christmas card
1927

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Box
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 54 no. 1-4; vol. 55 no. 1, 3-4, vol. 56 no. 2
1987-1989

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Box
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 56 no. 3-4, vol. 57 no. 1
1989-1990

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Box
32
Pennsylvania History, vol. 57 no. 2-4
1990

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Textual Material (includes manuscripts, printed material, newspaper clippings, reports, etc.):
Box
42
Boudreau, James E.
1959
42
Carter, John J.
1956
42
Culver, C.V.
undated
42
Drake, Edwin L.
1950-1959
42
Marine Lubricants
42
Mather, John A.
1964
42
Miller, Ernest C.
1964-1976
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Bibliography
1971
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Hanks, Jim
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Meet John Mather
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Pennsylvania State Police
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Place Names in Warren County, Pennsylvania
42
Miller, Ernest C. - Writings of: Miscellaneous
42
Patent Management Inc.
42
Pennsylvania
42
Pennsylvania - Meadville
42
Pennsylvania - Pithole
42
Pennsylvania - Warren County
42
Petroleum (12 folders)
42
Petroleum - Alabama
42
Petroleum - Barrels
42
Petroleum - Bulgaria
42
Petroleum - California
42
Petroleum - Canada (4 folders)
42
Petroleum - Canada - Alberta
42
Petroleum - Carbon Black
42
Petroleum - Company - American Midway Oil
42
Petroleum - Company - Beacon (Ontario)
42
Petroleum - Company - Carolina Petroleum Company
42
Petroleum - Company - Continental Oil
42
Petroleum - Company - Diamond Oil & Gas
42
Petroleum - Company - Essex
42
Petroleum - Company - Humble Pipe Line
42
Petroleum - Company - Imperial Oil
42
Petroleum - Company - Independent Petroleum Association of America
42
Petroleum - Company - Kendall Refining Company
42
Petroleum - Company - Magnolia
42
Petroleum - Company - Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line
42
Petroleum - Company - Munchausen, Philosopher's Stone, and Gull Creek (prospectus)
43
Petroleum - Company - New England
43
Petroleum - Company - New York
44
Petroleum - Company - New York Kerosene Oil
43
Petroleum - Company - North American Oil Consolidated
43
Petroleum - Company - North European Oil Corporation
43
Petroleum - Company - Ohio Oil
43
Petroleum - Company - Penn-Drake
43
Petroleum - Company - Phillips
43
Petroleum - Company - Pierce Petroleum Company
43
Petroleum - Company - Pure Oil
43
Petroleum - Company - Seamans Oil Company
43
Petroleum - Company - Silas Pierce
43
Petroleum - Company - Socony-Vacuum Company
43
Petroleum - Company - Standard Oil
43
Petroleum - Company - Standard Oil of California
43
Petroleum - Company - Standard Oil of Ohio
43
Petroleum - Company - Standing Stone
43
Petroleum - Company - Tide Water
43
Petroleum - Company - Titus
43
Petroleum - Company - Transcontinental
43
Petroleum - Company - Union Oil of California
43
Petroleum - Company - United States Petroleum Company
43
Petroleum - Company - Utah Oil Refining Company
43
Petroleum - Company - Vickers
43
Petroleum - Company - West Penn
43
Petroleum - Conservation
43
Petroleum - Crude Oil
43
Petroleum - Crude Oil - Pennsylvania
43
Petroleum - Depletion
43
Petroleum - Drilling (4 folders)
43
Petroleum - Drilling - Corrosion
43
Petroleum - Drilling - Diamond Drills
43
Petroleum - Drilling - Rock Boring
43
Petroleum - Equipment
43
Petroleum - Exploration
43
Petroleum - Explosives
43
Petroleum - Financial
43
Petroleum - Florida
43
Petroleum - Fuel
43
Petroleum - History (4 folders)
43
Petroleum - Hungary
43
Petroleum - Industry
43
Petroleum - Lamp Oil
43
Petroleum - Loss and Waste Prevention
43
Petroleum - Lubricating Oils
43
Petroleum - Natural Gas
43
Petroleum - Natural Gas - Lighting
43
Petroleum - New York
43
Petroleum - New Zealand
43
Petroleum - Ohio
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Arkansas
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Belmont Quadrangle (New York)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Bradford Oil District (Pennsylvania)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Brazos County (Texas)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Butler Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Caddo (Louisiana)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Cameron County (Pennsylvania)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Canada
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Cement (Oklahoma)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Clarion Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Corry Quadrangle (Pennsylvania - New York)
43
Petroleum - Oil Field - Cushing (Oklahoma)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Dunkirk Quadrangle (New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - East Fork Wharton Gas Field (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Elk County (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Ellicottville Quadrangle (New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Foxburg Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Franklin Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Freeport Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Friendswood (Texas)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Jamestown Quadrangle (New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kansas
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kentucky
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kern County (California)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kettle Creek Anticline (Kentucky)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kinzua Quadrangle (Pennsylvania and New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Kittanning Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Madill-Dennison Area (Oklahoma)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - McKean County (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Midway District (California)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Millstone Spring Creek District (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Mississippi
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Montana
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Muddy Creek (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Mule Creek (Wyoming)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - New Kensington Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - New Mexico
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Oil City Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Olean Quadrangle (New York - Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Ormsby (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Osage Reservation (Oklahoma)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Pennsylvania
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Puente Hills (California)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Randolph Quadrangle (New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Rocky Mountains
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Rural Valley Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Salamanca Quadrangle (New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Salinas Valley-Parkfield Area (California)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Salt Creek (Wyoming)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Seaman Hills Anticline (Wyoming)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Sheffield Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Smethport Quadrangle (Pennsylvania-New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Tionesta Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Titusville (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Townville Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Turner Valley (Alberta, Canada)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Uintah Basin (Utah)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Union City Quadrangle (Pennsylvania-New York)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - United States
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Venango County (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Warren County (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Wilcox (Oklahoma)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Williston Basin (North Dakota)
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Wyoming
44
Petroleum - Oil Field - Youngsville Quadrangle (Pennsylvania)
44
Petroleum - Oil Well
44
Petroleum - Oil Well Cementing
44
Petroleum - Oklahoma
44
Petroleum - Organization - Interstate Oil Compact Commission
44
Petroleum - Organization - National Petroleum Association
44
Petroleum - Organization - Rocky Mountain Petroleum Association
44
Petroleum - Organization - Twenty-five Year Club
44-45
Petroleum - Pennsylvania (3 folders)
45
Petroleum - Pennsylvania - Drake Well Memorial Park
45
Petroleum - Pipeline
45
Petroleum - Production (2 folders)
45
Petroleum - Promotion
45
Petroleum - Refinery - Cornplanter
45
Petroleum - Refinery - United Refining Company
45
Petroleum - Refining
45
Petroleum - Rock Oil
45
Petroleum - Russia
45
Petroleum - Texas (2 folders)
45
Petroleum - Transportation
45
Petroleum - Venezuela
45
Warren, Francis E.
Photographic Material:
Box
46
Benninghoff, John, Joseph, and Frederick
46
Bissell, George H.
46
Booth, John Wilkes
46
Drake, Edwin L.
46
Ellsler, John A.
46
Galey, John H.
46
Kier, Samuel M.
46
Mather, John A.
46
Miller, Ernest C.
46
Mining - Company - Big Five
46
Mining - Morenci (Arizona)
46
Petroleum - Company - McCall, Stock & Anderson
46
Petroleum - Company - Seneca Oil
46
Petroleum - Industry
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Bradford (Pennsylvania)
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Drake Well Site
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Mexico
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Oklahoma
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Pennsylvania
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Pithole (Pennsylvania)
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Tarr Farm
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Tidioute (Pennsylvania)
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Titusville
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - Warren (Pennsylvania)
46
Petroleum - Oil Field - West Vitginia
46
Petroleum - Products
46
Petroleum - Refinery - Imperial
46
Petroleum - Refinery - Utah Oil Refining Company
46
Petroleum - Transportation
46
Rouse, Henry R. (printing plate)
46
San Francisco Earthquake
1906
46
Silliman, Benjamin
46
Smith, W.A.
46
Steadman, Darius (also family, church)
46
Tarbell, Ida
46
Townsend, James M.
46
Van Syckel, Samuel
46
White, T.A.
46
Williams, James Miller

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Airplanes -- History -- United States.
  • Oil fields -- United States.
  • Petroleum -- History -- United States.
  • Petroleum industry and trade -- United States.

Personal Names

  • Harsell, B.L.

Corporate Names

  • Standard Oil Trust.
  • Sun Oil Company.
  • Union Oil and Manufacturing Company.
  • West Penn Oil Company, Inc.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Letter book.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Miller, Ernest C. (Ernest Conrad), 1912- -- Tintypes in oil.