Universal Oil Products Company records, 1915-1978.

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Universal Oil Products Company records, 1915-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122533854

The collection contains the corporate records of the Universal Oil Products Company from inception to the 1970s which include the Legal Department with documentation of numerous legal actions taken by the company in patent actions and mergers among other actions. These files contain a wide variety of legal documentation including photographs and other evidentiary materials dating back to the early years of the company. The files of the Records Center, highlighted in a 1978 article titled "Records Management at UOP, Inc." in "Information and Records Management " are included. Blueprints, site information, photographs, some personnel records, and other documentation are contained.

885.62 cubic ft. (885 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6752058

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Universal Oil Processes, Inc.

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Armour, J. Ogden (Jonathan Ogden), 1863-1927

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Dubbs, C.P.

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UOP Inc.

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Universal Oil Products Company

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Universal Oil Products Company (UOP) played a major role in the development of the petroleum industry. UOP was established in 1915, having been instituted in 1914 by Jesse A. Dubbs, inventor and J. Ogden Armour, financier, as the National Hydrocarbon Company. C.P. Dubbs, son of the founder, headed research and development of technologies for the oil refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries, centered in Independence, Kansas. In 1919 Universal Oil Products introduced Dubb's very succ...

Dubbs, Jesse A.

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