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Category: Oil Industry

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Drilling for Black Gold: The “Annual Report of the Union Oil Company of California” for 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 7, 2021
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Reading Between the Lines: A Letter to Walter P. Temple from Arthur A. “Ben” Gale of the United States Army Signal Corps, 20 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
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Making a Statement: A “Report of Disbursements and Receipts” for Walter P. Temple, 18 December 1921 to 20 January 1922

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 19, 2021
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Refined and Crude: Union Oil Bulletin, January 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 11, 2021January 12, 2021
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A Powerful Call to Vote in the Presidential Election in the “Standard Oil Bulletin,” October 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 6, 2020December 30, 2020
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Drilling for Black Gold: A Press Photo from the Christening of the Oil Tanker “Larry Doheny,” 12 August 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 12, 2020December 30, 2020
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Read All About Drilling for Black Gold: An Oil Field in the Suburbs of Los Angeles in “Scientific American” Magazine, 17 July 1897

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 17, 2020December 30, 2020
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Refined and Crude: An Aerial Photograph of the Richfield Oil Company Refinery, Paramount, 22 May 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 22, 2020December 29, 2020
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from George H. Woodruff to Walter P. Temple, 14 May 1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 13, 2020December 29, 2020
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Drilling for Black Gold with the “Union Oil Company of California Bulletin,” April 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 26, 2020December 29, 2020
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