Scope and Contents From the Collection: Cinema Bomar Films was donated and curated by the 16mm film collective, Cinema Bomar, which highlights local Houstonian home movies, camera tests, as well as promotional and industrial films created for Pennzoil, the Houston Chronicle, Monsanto, and IBM 1800. Of special interest is the Kennedy Assassination – Chronicle, 1963, film created by August Galiano, an amateur filmmaker and father of collection donor, Elizabeth Nelson, which depicts Galiano’s day working at the Houston Chronicle when...

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The collection consists of 13 annual reports of the Caribbean Petroleum Company, later known as the Shell Caribbean Petroleum Company, part of Royal Dutch Shell, from between 1915 and 1938.

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Handwritten report on Charles F. Craver and Sons letterhead describes Craver's 1909 trip to Louisiana and Texas to scout oil. Locations include Houston and the Humble oil field, Valley Mills, Coleburne, Beaumont, Orange, Lake Charles and the Jennings oil field in Louisiana.

Accession number 2024-019.

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The Fitch collection consists of maps, books, guides, manuals and other items related to the oil & gas industry.

Books from the collection have been separated for cataloging.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Cinema Bomar Films was donated and curated by the 16mm film collective, Cinema Bomar, which highlights local Houstonian home movies, camera tests, as well as promotional and industrial films created for Pennzoil, the Houston Chronicle, Monsanto, and IBM 1800. Of special interest is the Kennedy Assassination – Chronicle, 1963, film created by August Galiano, an amateur filmmaker and father of collection donor, Elizabeth Nelson, which depicts Galiano’s day working at the Houston Chronicle when...

Scope and Contents Description from seller: "This album documents a Standard Oil employee's time drilling in Egypt. It begins with his trek from Tulsa by way of New York City and London where he snapped street scenes, airports and landmarks. The album then jumps to Egypt where we see camels and pyramids, street scenes, a man arrested for drug smuggling, Mount Sinai, Abu Rudeis and more.Approximately 30 photographs are devoted to the Natroun drilling site, located between Cairo and Alexandria. There...

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The Shell Deer Park Historical Archives Collection dates from 1927 to 2011 and consists of records acquired by the Shell Deer Park Historical Society. The collection documents the development of the Shell refinery and chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas. Records include correspondence, blueprints, operating reports, photographs, employee training manuals, employee publications, press clippings, and information booklets.

Scope and Contents The collection arrived at the archives in good order, and the original order has been maintained whenever possible. The collection consists of thirty-five folders dating from 1958 to 1994. Materials in the collection include brochures, evaluation results, a few photographs, correspondence, and program booklets that describe the course activities. The only materials kept from the earliest years were participant rosters and programs of activities. Three years (1967-1969) were missing...

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Professional papers of Shell Oil Company geologist Wallace L. (Jimmy) Wilgus include photographs, reports, publications, correspondence, and other documents.