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1) Sketches in crude-oil

Author

McLaurin, John J

Publisher

John J. McLaurin

Language

English

Description

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Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe. With portraits and illustrations.

2) The oil regions of Pennsylvania: showing where petroleum is found; how it is obtained, and at what cost. With hints for whom it may concern

Author

Wright, William

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local History Collection

3) Early daze in oil

Author

Miller, Ernest C

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local History Collection

Description

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An anecdotal view of some of the personalities that were prominent in the early oil industry with excellent photographs by John Aked Mather.

4) Western Pennsylvania's oil heritage

Author

Williams, Charles E

Series

Postcard history
Images of America a history of American life in images and texts

Physical Desc

127 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local History Collection

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The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to its...

5) Pennsylvania crude: boomtowns and oil barons

Author

Adomites, Paul

Publisher

Forest Press

Pub. Date

c2010

Physical Desc

116 p. : ill., map 24 cm. x 31 cm. 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Language

English

Description

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Pictorial history of the Pennsylvania oil fields.

6) Speak to the earth

Author

Miller, Max

Publisher

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc

Pub. Date

c1955

Physical Desc

310 p.

Language

English

7) Petroleum and its products: an account of the history, origin, composition, properties, uses, and commerical value, etc., of petroleum, the methods employed in refining it, and the properties, uses, etc.,...

Author

Tate, A. Norman

Publisher

John W. Davies

Pub. Date

1863

Physical Desc

116 p.

Language

English

8) Oil across the world: the American saga of pipelines

Author

Wilson, Charles Morrow

Publisher

Longmans, Green

Pub. Date

1946

Language

English

9) The early and later history of petroleum

Author

Henry, J.T

Publisher

Jas. B. Rodgers

Pub. Date

1873

Physical Desc

607 p.

Language

English

Description

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With authentic facts in regard to its development in Western Pennsylvania. The oil fields of Europe and America, gas wells, spiritual wells, oil well shafts, petroleum products, oil companies, pipe line statistics, early modes of transportation, flowing wells of 1861 to 1864, Pit Hole in 1865, the lubricating oil district, &c. Also, statistics of product, export, and consumption, with prices of oil from 1859 to 1872, &c. The Parkers' and Butler County...

10) The birth of the oil industry

Author

Giddens, Paul H

Publisher

Macmillan

Pub. Date

1938

Edition

First printing.

Physical Desc

216 p.

Language

English

11) Early days of oil: a pictorial history of the beginnings of the industry in Pennsylvania

Author

Giddens, Paul Henry

Publisher

Princeton University

Pub. Date

1948

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local History Collection

12) The golden flood: an informal history of America's first oil field

Author

Asbury, Herbert

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

1942

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

324 p.

Language

English

13) The oil and gas journal: petroleum panorama

Publisher

Petroleum Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1959

Language

English

Description

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An issue of The oil and gas journal to commemorate oil's first one hundred years, 1859-1959.

14) The Derrick's hand-book of petroleum: a complete chronological and statistical review of petroleum developments from 1859-1898

Publisher

Derrick Pub. Co

Pub. Date

1898

Language

English

Description

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Daily market quotations, tables of runs, shipments and stocks, oil exports, field operations and other subjects of interest and importance to the oil trade.