Ernest C. Miller papers, 1838-1988.

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Ernest C. Miller papers, 1838-1988.

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The collection includes the manuscript of Miller's "Tintypes in Oil" and related correspondence; the Union Oil Company's account books, 1934 and 1936; "Texas Petroleum News" 1919-1920; a petroleum letterbook, 1866-1868, of B.L. Harsell, a petroleum dealer; as well as other pamphlets, articles, legal documents, correspondence, and manuscripts concerning the American petroleum history in both the eastern and western United States and some international materials. Issues of the "Petroleum Gazette", "Warren County Observer", and "Pennsylvania History", 1987-1988, are included. There are several 19th century manuscripts on sperm oil and kerosene oil, most in the form of commercial circular letters. There are a number of books and printed material related to American aeronautics, its growth and development.

32.23 cubic ft. (52 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8308688

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Standard Oil Trust

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Miller, Ernest C. (Ernest Conrad), 1912 Tintypes in oil.

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Harsell, B.L.

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West Penn Oil Company, Inc.

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Union Oil and Manufacturing Company

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Miller, Ernest C. (Ernest Conrad), 1912-

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Ernest Conrad Miller (1912- ) was the president of West Penn Oil Company and an historian of the petroleum industry from its beginnings in Pennsylvania, through the rise of the Standard Oil Trust, to the development of western oil fields, such as the Salt Creek field of Wyoming. He authored several books on petroleum history, including "John Wilkes Booth - Oilman" and "Oil Mania: Sketches from the Early Pennsylvania Oil Fields" and "Oil Mining in Pennsylvania" (1946). He was a collector of petro...