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American Petroleum Institute.
- Dates:
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1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
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45 Cubic feet (122 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0711
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes historic photographs, slides and films on subjects relating to all aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, refineries, tankers, pipelines, automobiles, trucks, aviation, refueling, buildings, coal, gasification, plants, mining, surface mining, fields, land reclamation, coastal zone management, corporate public service, educational programs, crude oil, deepwater ports, and watercraft It also documents numerous products other than gasoline produced by the petroleum industry, such as propane, lubricants, heating oil, and plastics.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1838-1981
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4.38 Cubic feet (consisting of 9.5 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Petroleum
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Petroleum forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Amoco Oil Company.
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circa 1912-1920
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1102
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of refineries, flow charts, lab notebooks, and other materials relating to the Burton-Humphreys oil cracking process.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
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1921-1922, 1947, 1956-1986
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5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-299
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the research, planning, and execution of exhibits by the Department of the History of Science and Technology. Exhibits include the Hall of Petroleum, the Hall of Iron and Steel, and Inventing Standard Time. Some of the materials date to when the department was known as the Division of Indus...
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Scherbatskoy, Serge A., 1908-2002
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1925-2002
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17 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0936
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the professional career and business interests of inventor Serge A. Scherbatskoy, who specialized in petroleum geophysics. Papers include laboratory notebooks, license agreements, correspondence, blue line prints, patent litigation files, newspaper clippings, reference files, patents, promotional literature, and audio-visual materials.
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1922-1974
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 20-135
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining to agriculture, zoology, fisheries, mining engineering, and manufacturers. Some of the images were taken by Science Service staff, while others came from manufacturers and governmental agencies such as the United States Bureau of Mines and the United States Weather Bureau. ...
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Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
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1970 - 2010
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31 Cubic feet (31 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains the product of Smith's life's work as an industrial and transportation photographer. It consists of approximately 120,000 35mm color slides of various industrial and transportation subjects. Transportation is the larger subject area, including such topics as trucks, vehicles, transit, traffic, railroads, ships, etc. The slid...
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d'Arazien, Arthur
- Dates:
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circa 1930-2002
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11 Cubic feet (28 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Arthur d'Arazien's professional work in industrial photography from the late 1940's through about 1981; personal creative photography and other types of professional work were retained by Mr. d'Arazien or placed elsewhere. Thus this collection is a very cohesive, unified body of work, which documents primarily American (and...
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Gordon, Mackenzie, 1913-
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1913-1992
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16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-078
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection documents Gordon's paleontological research; his service with the USGS, including field work; and his professional activities. Included is correspondence and memoranda arranged chronologically, alphabetically, and by subject; reports on fossils sent to Gordon for identification; subject/project files concerning field work, ...
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Soule, Thayer
- Dates:
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1946-1985
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Film reels (black-and-white silent; color silent, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1991.20
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Human Studies Film Archives
Film collection contains 34 travel films from around the world made by Thayer Soule, some of which were made with associates, that he used in presenting travel lectures around the country from 1935 to 1995. He was an associate with Burton Holmes, dean of travel lecturers, from 1946 to 1958. Collection also includes still photographs, publicity ma...
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