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Magnolia Petroleum Company. Magnolia Petroleum Company report and testimony, 1946 Aug. 27.

Title: Magnolia Petroleum Company report and testimony, 1946 Aug. 27.

Two documents, both dated 27 August 1946, consisting of a written report and testimony presented to the Department of Conservation in the State of Louisiana regarding Magnolia Petroleum Company oil well drilling in Mamou Field, Evangeline Parish, La., considered to be the location of the first Louisiana oil field. The report contains correspondence, data, well surveys, departmental reports, and analysis gathered throughout 1946. Results of the data are presented in written, graphic, and numerical form. Information and analysis covered in the report and testimony include: the geology of the Mamou Field, well completions and production histories, reservoir engineering, disposition of gas on the field, and suggested rules and regulations governing the development of Mamou Field.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 linear feet.

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Mike Martinez photograph collection, 1892-c.1950.

Title: Mike Martinez photograph collection, 1892-c.1950.

Copy prints from the National Photo Print Company, El Paso, Texas. Contain photographs of El Paso street scenes and businesses. Some of the business included are: Phelps Dodge, Portland Cement, Magnolia Petroleum Company, Lone Star Motor Company, and other motor companies. Many of the motor company photographs have images of cars of the period, mostly the 1920's.

ArchivalResource: 43 photographic prints : b&w ; 20.3 x 25.3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50218280 View

Joseph Stephen Cullinan Collection MSS 69., ca. 1895-1939

Title: Joseph Stephen Cullinan Collection ca. 1895-1939

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Mabry J. Norrell Papers 71-61., 1868-1964

Title: Mabry J. Norrell Papers 1868-1964

The papers include materials related to the history of the Magnolia Petroleum Company and the career of E. R. Brown.

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Kirkbride, Chalmer G., (Chalmer Gatlin), 1906-1998. Oral history interview with Chalmer G. Kirkbride 1993 July 15

Title: Oral history interview with Chalmer G. Kirkbride 1993 July 15

Chalmer Kirkbride begins the interview by describing his family background and childhood in Oklahoma and Kansas. During high school, Kirkbride's interests were influenced by his brother-in-law, a chemist for Sherwin-Williams. Kirkbride studied chemical engineering at the University of Michigan and spent summers working in the oil fields. He was recruited on campus by Standard Oil of Indiana and worked at the Whiting refinery. Kirkbride also worked for the Pan American Transport Company and Magnolia Petroleum Corporation before being appointed as the first distinguished engineering professor at Texas A&M University. In 1947, Kirkbride returned to industry when he was recruited by the Houdry Process Corporation. He became president of Houdry before moving to Sun Oil Company, where he created a commercial development department and began taking an active interest in environmental issues. After his retirement Kirkbride became president of the Cecil County Anti-Pollution league, founded Kirkbride Associates, and participated in board activities at Widener University.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings ; cassettes (210 mins.)Transcript : (59 leaves) ; 29 cm.

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Inventory of the Mercurio Martinez Papers Texas MSS 00083 ., 1767-1963 (bulk: 1910-1963)

Title: Inventory of the Mercurio Martinez Papers 1767-1963 (bulk: 1910-1963)

Mercurio Martinez, school teacher, rancher, legal researcher, public spirited citizen, and authority on the history and genealogy of Zapata County, Tex., was born in San Ygnacio, Zapata County, Tex. on October 27, 1876, and died in 1965. Descended from Spanish-Mexican pioneers who had settled on the banks of the Rio Grande River in the mid-eighteenth century, Martinez was one of six children born to Don Proceso Martinez and Maria de Jesus Martinez. As a child, Martinez studied guitar and violin. Music remained an avocation throughout his long life, and he wrote numerous "corridos" or ballads which were based on historically significant events in the Zapata County area.In 1898 Martinez graduated from St. Edwards College in Austin, Tex., with a degree of Master of Accounts which is equivalent to a B. S. degree in Business Administration. Between 1898 and 1907, Martinez taught school in the Dolores settlement of Zapata County, Tex. where many of his paternal kinsmen lived. Upon moving to the town of Zapata in 1908, Martinez was appointed principal of the local schools, serving as principal and teacher from 1908 until 1911, when he resigned to become Zapata County treasurer and the administrator of the County School Depository. Martinez held this position through 1916. In 1917, Martinez was appointed Sanitary Inspector of Zapata County by the State Health Department. During his two-year term, he actively attempted to ameliorate conditions which led to the spread of contagious diseases. From 1919 until 1921, he devoted his time to farming and ranching. Although he continued to supervise his lands and rental properties throughout his life, Martinez accepted a position with the Laredo law firm of Hicks, Hicks, Dickson and Bobbitt in 1921, and moved to Laredo. Martinez's duties included work as bookkeeper, cashier, auditor, translator, interpreter, abstracter, and investigator. His knowledge of kinship networks and histories of land ownership in Zapata County was an especially valuable asset to the firm. Mercurio Martinez retired from the Laredo, Tex. law firm in 1942, but continued to work with local lawyers on occasional cases having to do with land ownership. Interests in the history of the region his forebearers had pioneered led him to cooperate with Virgil Lott of Roma, Texas, in writing a county history, , which was published in 1953. One of the great achievements of Martinez's long and vigorous life was his role in the salvation of the community of historic San Ygnacio, Tex., which was condemned as a result of flooding caused in the area by the construction of the Falcon Dam in 1949. The flooding marked the doom of many ancient towns along the river south of Laredo. Martinez worked as a key agent of the International Boundary & Water Commission in contacting the many citizens of Zapata County who were resettled on higher ground. The Mercurio Martinez Papers (1797-1963 (bulk: 1910-1963)) include correspondence, copies of legal documents such as wills, deeds, affidavits and courtroom briefs, maps, a few photographs, field notes for land surveys, genealogical charts, accounts of family and regional history by Mercurio Martinez and historical accounts from other sources, principally newspapers. There are also financial records of various kinds including tax records, bills and receipts, books of check stubs, and account sheets. The vast majority of the papers relate to families, places and events in Zapata County, Tex. Webb County, Tex. is also well represented, as is the region surrounding the town of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, located on the south bank of the Rio Grande River opposite Zapata County, Tex. Accounts of family and local history written by Martinez in the 1950's and early 1960's deal with events dating back to the Spanish settlements along the lower Rio Grande in the 1750's. Genealogies are generally traced back to the first colonists to arrive in the region. There are more files from the 1950's than any other single decade.Approximately one-quarter of the papers are written in Spanish, and many of the Spanish documents are accompanied with English translations.Among the most important files in the collection are those on the relocation of the town of Zapata due to the construction of Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande River in the early 1950's, the salvation of the community of San Ygnacio from destruction during this period, the accounts of family history and genealogy from Zapata County, and the papers related to division of lands between descendants of original holders of Spanish grants and sales of family lands. Also of interest are the Corridos, or ballads, composed by Mercurio Martinez and dealing with dramatic events in Zapata County history. The Kingdom of Zapata

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Kelley, Frank, 1897-1963. Papers, 1936-1963.

Title: Papers, 1936-1963.

Papers relate to oil, Texas Tech University, water conservation, the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, the Good Neighbor Commission, Texas agriculture, and an economic survey of Mitchell County, Texas. The collection bulks (1950-1963) with printed materials related to water conservation projects and issues of interest in West Texas and throughout the state. The collection also focuses heavily upon Kelley's involvement with the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, West Texas economic development, the Texas Tech Foundation and his interest in education.

ArchivalResource: 8,264 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23195237 View

Pearce, William Martin, Jr., 1913-. Papers, 1932-1974.

Title: Papers, 1932-1974.

Collection documents Pearces's career, research and literary activities. Includes literary productions, newsclippngs, correspondence and articles from historical journals. Much of the material relates to Pearce's book on the Matador Land and Cattle Company, and to work done with Carl Coke Rister on Rister's book about the oil industry. Contains correspondence regarding academic and administrative affairs at Texas Tech. Also contains accounts of archaeological expeditions to sand hill sites in Bailey and Lamb counties of Texas in 1932 and Mexico in 1940. Includes two literary productions by Pearces's mother, Annie E. Bates Pearce, dealing with life on the High Plains in the early twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 1, 652 leaves.

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J. Eugene Wukasch records WUK Accession numbers: 2001008, 2003001., 1900-1996, (bulk 1930-1987)

Title: J. Eugene Wukasch records 1900-1996 (bulk 1930-1987)

J. Eugene Wukasch (1921-2001) earned his B.S.Ar.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1943. He established practice as Wukasch & Associates, AIA, PE, Architect and Consultants at 2000 Guadalupe in Austin, Texas and was involved in local building preservation activity, including the movement to preserve the Nueces County Courthouse. He died November 2001. Drawings, presentation boards, and papers illustrate the architectural and structural engineering career of J. Eugene Wukasch.

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Joseph Stephen Cullinan Collection, 1895-1939 2006-009., 1895-1939

Title: Joseph Stephen Cullinan Collection, 1895-1939 1895-1939

Joseph Stephen Cullinan founded the Texas Company and was a key figure in the commerical and cultural history of Houston in the early 20th century. This collection contains correspondence, records and other materials relating to Cullinan's business ventures, family life, and community involvement.

ArchivalResource: 69 Boxes

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Five Star Oil Report collection, 1950-1956.

Title: Five Star Oil Report collection, 1950-1956.

Collection bulks (1950-1956) with the newsletters "West Texas Daily (1/1950-11/1956), "Midland Daily" (5/1950-12/1956), "West Texas-New Mexico Semi-Weekly (1/1952-12/1956), "Dallas-Fort Worth Daily" (5/1952-9/1953), and "New Mexico Weekly" (2/1953-11/1956). Each issue highlights technical information on field exploration and developments, well completions, new fields, and drilling progress. These reports provide a convenient listing of active companies, and the news page provides an informative clipped notice of field developments.

ArchivalResource: 96, 326 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23195267 View

Lord, Bert, 1869-1939. Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Title: Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Political business, and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, but also including scrapbooks, loose newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed or mimeographed material, copies of speeches, legal documents, and accounts. Correspondence for the period when Lord was supervisor of the Town of Afton is concerned mainly with Chenango County politics, road construction, the Chenango County Tuberculosis Hospital, and the operation of the direct primary. Correspondence for the time during which Lord was was a member of the New York Assembly and the state Senate deals with the internal affairs of the legislature and also contains a considerable volume of letters from constituents and colleagues on farm abandonment, the shortage of farm labor, and other agricultural problems; milk quality and prices, oleomargarine production and sale, and other dairy industry issues; teachers' salaries and pensions, nurses' salaries, and veterans' benefits; the gasoline tax, highway construction, and motor vehicle legislation; banking and insurance legislation; forestry and fish and game laws; local option and prohibition; minimum wage and maximum hour, workmen's compensation, and other labor laws; movie regulation and censorship, Sunday observance, boxing regulation, women's prison reform, and public health; the exclusion of the five Socialists from the Assembly (1920); and numerous other matters of public concern. Correspondence for the two terms Lord served as Congressman from the 34th New York District includes numerous letters from constituents concerning current economic conditions, federal tax policy, the Townsend Plan, the operation of the Wages and Hours Law (1938), Social Security, unemployment compensation, veterans' pensions, and tariff legislation, particularly that affecting imported shoes; the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Farm Security Administration, Home Owners Loan Corporation, Public Works Administration, Railroad Retirement Act, Resettlement Administration, Supreme Court reorganization plan, Tennessee Valley Authority, and various other aspects of the New Deal; United States naval power and other questions of national defense; immigration and naturalization policies, neutrality legislation, the situations in China, Ethiopia, and Spain, and other matters pertaining to American foreign policy. In addition, there are approximately four hundred letter (1914-1938) between Lord and members of the Republican Party organization, in which finances and support given candidates for various offices are discussed. Lord's business papers (1902-1932) consist of correspondence and accounts of Lord & McHugh, general merchandise store at Afton, and letters concerning his timber land and lumber mill interests, especially the sale of railroad ties and mine props to the Hudson Coal Company and the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company; personal correspondence concerns family matters and trips made to Europe and Florida. The Lord scrapbooks (8 vols., 1915-1937) contain clippings from newspapers and magazines, photographs, and other items pertaining to Lord's political career and to events on the state and national scene. Correspondents include William H. Anderson, William G. Andrews, Robert L. Bacon, Frank W. Barnes, Nelson P. Bonney, John Boyle, Jr., Charles L. Carrier, Glenn F. Carter, Nelson W. Cheney, John D. Clarke, Marian W. Clarke, Roland L. Davis, Thomas E. Dewey, John J. Dillon, George R. Dutton, Edward R. Eastman, Melvin C. Eastman, Melvin C. Eaton, George W. Fairchild, George R. Frearon, James D. Flanagan, James F. Forman, Edward B. Furry, Archie D. Gibbs, Charles S. Gibson, John Hamilton, Fred Hammond, Charles A. Harnett, Oswald D. Heck, Charles J. Hewitt, Homer Higley, James P. Hill, William H. Hill, Harold J. Hinman, Harvey DeForest Hinman, W.O. Hintermister, Cordell Hull, Irving M. Ives, George F. Johnson, J. Kennard Johnson, Samuel A. Jones, Carl E. Ladd, Herbert H. Lehman, Alfred A. Lord, Seymour Lowman, Clayton R. Lusk, John T. McNeil, Edmund H. Machold, W. Kingsland Macy, Joseph Martin, Jr., Nathan Miller, Ogden L. Mills, Abbott Low Moffat, Henry Morganthau, Jr., Reuben B. Oldfield, Tom O'Rourke, Daniel A. Reed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., E.F. Runnells, Alfred E. Smith, Louis W. Stotesbury, Thaddeus C. Sweet, Gage E. Tarbell, James W. Wadsworth, Jr., George F. Warren, Charles Seymour Whitman, and numerous others. There are also letters from or concerning the New York State Agricultural Advisory Commission, American Defense Society, Anti-Saloon League, Civil Service Reform Association, Dairymen's League, W.H. Dunne Company, Magnolia Petroleum Company, New York Civic League, New York State Association of Real Estate Boards, New York State Women's Relief Corps Home (Oxford), Norwich Pharmacal Company, Otsego Forest Products Cooperative Association, Rock Royal Cooperative, South Coast and Northern Lumber Company, Wayne Lumber Company, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 18 cubic ft.

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Magnolia Petroleum Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history].

Title: [Pamphlets. Financial history].

ArchivalResource: v.

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Kirby Lumber Company. Kirby Lumber Company Collection ca. 1900-1940's.

Title: Kirby Lumber Company Collection ca. 1900-1940's.

This collection provides valuable information on labor and living conditions in East Texas lumber towns, as well as data on domestic and foreign lumber sales, charitable activities, stumpage and freight contracts, and the company's financial standing. It also contains correspondence and financial statements for the Houston Oil Company and the Texas and Louisiana Lumber Company, John Henry Kirby's first lumber venture.

ArchivalResource: ca. 66 linear feet : including 63 document boxes, 16 flat boxes (8 small, 8 large), 18 loose v.

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Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Title: Bert Lord papers, 1902-1939.

Political business, and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, but also including scrapbooks, loose newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed or mimeographed material, copies of speeches, legal documents, and accounts.

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Latimer, John Leslie, 1897-1968. Latimer, J.L. "Slatz," papers, 1897-1968.

Title: Latimer, J.L. "Slatz," papers, 1897-1968.

Scrapbooks, correspondence, printed material, clippings, photographs, and sound recordings document the life and career of J. L. "Slatz" Latimer.

ArchivalResource: 7 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35734330 View

Kirby Lumber Company Collection RG D-34., ca. 1900-1940's

Title: Kirby Lumber Company Collection ca. 1900-1940's

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Norrell, Mabry J., 1881-1961. Norrell, Mabry J., papers, 1868-1964.

Title: Norrell, Mabry J., papers, 1868-1964.

The papers include a book manuscript, letters, addresses, articles, clippings and photographs related to the history of the Magnolia Petroleum Company and the career of E. R. Brown.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 in.

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