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Digitized Content American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection
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Creators:
American Petroleum Institute.
Dates:
1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
Size:
45 Cubic feet (122 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0711
Repository:
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 Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Petroleum
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1838-1981
Size:
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:
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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Burton-Humphreys Oil Production Collection
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Creators:
Amoco Oil Company.
Dates:
circa 1912-1920
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1102
Repository:
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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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
Dates:
1921-1922, 1947, 1956-1986
Size:
5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 17-299
Repository:
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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Serge A. Scherbatskoy Papers
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Creators:
Scherbatskoy, Serge A., 1908-2002
Dates:
1925-2002
Size:
17 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0936
Repository:
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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Records
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Dates:
1922-1974
Size:
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 20-135
Repository:
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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Lawrence V. Smith Collection
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Creators:
Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
Dates:
1970 - 2010
Size:
31 Cubic feet (31 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1314
Repository:
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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Digitized Content Arthur d'Arazien Industrial Photographs
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Creators:
d'Arazien, Arthur
Dates:
circa 1930-2002
Size:
11 Cubic feet (28 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0314
Repository:
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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Mackenzie Gordon, Jr., Papers
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Creators:
Gordon, Mackenzie, 1913-
Dates:
1913-1992
Size:
16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 95-078
Repository:
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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Digitized Content Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
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Creators:
Soule, Thayer
Dates:
1946-1985
Size:
Film reels (black-and-white silent; color silent, 16mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1991.20
Repository:
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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