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John B. Fink Collection

 

 

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An illustrated historical compilation of the east central oils and gas region in Indiana, approximately 1894-1910.  This compilation covers churches, schools, oil and gas development, the steam railroad, people, Indiana Pipe Line (the former Interurban), factories, shops, etc.  The collection also includes research notes relating to early mining camps, military posts, railroads, and travel brochures of the southwestern United States.

 

 

Box 1

 

Folder:

 

1.         General Correspondence, 1933

 

2.         General Correspondence, 1944

 

3.         General Correspondence, 1948

 

4.         General Correspondence, 1957

 

5.         General Correspondence, 1958

 

6.         General Correspondence, 1959

 

 

Box 2

 

Folder:

 

1.         International Great Northern Railroad Company, 1922

 

2.         Rail-photo Service list   , 1949

 

3.         Oklahoma Railroad and Patterson Street Railroad, 1947

 

4.         Mixed trains and local trip from Kansas City to Oklahoma City, 1945

 

5.         Missouri and Arkansas timetables, 1948-1949

 

6.         East Florida brochures, 1958

 

7.         Southern Railway System

 

8.         Seaboard Air Line Company

 

9.         Ringling

 

10.       Railroad information bulletins

 

11.       Chicago Rock Island and Pacific

 

12.       OK Central, 1940

 

13.       Pittsburg County Railway Corp., 1947

 

14.       C.R.I. & P Kingfisher, Seward, Guthrie, and Chandler

 

15.       OK Southwestern Railway

 

16.       Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway Company

 

17.       Guthrie, Seward

 

18.       Rock Island

 

19.       Correspondence to Congress

 

20.       Correspondence

 

21.       Seaboard, Southern, 1958

 

22.       Union Electric, 1947

 

 

Box 3

 

Folder:

 

1.         Railroad timetables- miscellaneous

 

2.         Florida, North Carolina tourist information

 

3.         Midland Valley timetable

 

4.         Frisco Lines timetable

 

5.         Boston and Marine timetable

 

6.         Miami and Florida timetable

 

7.         New Haven timetable

 

8.         Baltimore and Ohio timetable

 

9.         Pennsylvania timetable

 

10.       Southern Railway System timetable

 

11.       Timetables- miscellaneous

 

12.       Frisco and Santa Fe timetable

 

13.       Seaboard Railroad timetable

 

14.       Rock Island and Atlantic timetable

 

15.       Wabash and New York Central timetable

 

16.       Oklahoma Bus Schedule

 

 

Box 4

 

Folder:

 

1.         Tourism- Oklahoma

 

2.         Tourism- Oklahoma

 

3.         Tourism- Indiana

 

4.         Tourism- Indiana

 

5.         Conservation- Oklahoma

 

6.         Conservation- Oklahoma

 

7.         Conservation- Oklahoma

 

8.         Conservation- Oklahoma

 

9.         Conservation- Florida

 

10.       Religious Literature

 

 

Box 5

 

Folder:

 

1.         Notebooks, 1919

 

2.         Notebooks, 1934

 

3.         Notebooks, 1935

 

4.         Notebooks, 1935

 

5.         Notebooks, 1936

 

6.         Notebooks, 1937

 

 

Box 6

 

Folder:

 

1.         Notebooks, 1938

 

2.         Notebooks, 1939

 

3.         Notebooks, 1940

 

4.         Notebooks, 1941

 

5.         Notebooks, 1941

 

6.         Notebooks, 1942

 

 

Box 7

 

Folder:

 

1.         Notebooks, 1943

 

2.         Notebooks, 1944

 

3.         Notebooks, 1945

 

4.         Notebooks, 1946

 

5.         Notebooks, 1947

 

6.         Oil Magazines

 

 

Box 8

 

Folder:

 

1.         Notebooks, 1949

 

2.         Notebooks, 1950

 

3.         Notebooks, 1951

 

4.         Notebooks, 1952

 

5.         Notebooks, 1953

 

6.         Notebooks, 1954

 

7.         Notebooks, 1955

 

8.         Notebooks, 1956

 

9.         Notebooks, 1957

 

10.       Notebooks, 1958

 

11.       Notebooks, 1959

 

 

Box 9

 

Folder:

 

1.         Nickle Plate Road, Illinois.  1955

 

2.         Railroad information

 

3.         Louisiana Map

 

4.         Maps of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and State Line Railway

 

5.         Abandonment- Oklahoma

 

6.         Photography information

 

7.         Miscellaneous railroad lines

 

 

Box 10

 

Folder:

 

1.         Indiana- Montpelier, Schools, Factories and Shops

 

2.         Hartford City, Muncie

 

3.         Correspondence- Indiana Pipe Line, Nickle Plater

 

4.         Correspondence- Oil and Gas boom in Montpelier, Indiana.  1955-1958.

 

5.         Correspondence- Montpelier, Indiana street map. 1957.

 

6.         Indiana Interurban.  1955.

 

7.         Correspondence- National Supply Co., Indian Railroad.  1946, 1956.

 

8.         Correspondence- General.  1959.

 

9.         Notebook- Data on Montpelier, Indiana.  1955.

 

 

Box 11

 

Folder:

 

1.         Correspondence regarding the glass industry, farm planning.  1955-1957.

 

2.         Interurban transportation in Indiana.  1940-1953.

 

3.         Correspondence regarding churches in Montpelier, Indiana.  1956.

 

4.         Trenton Rock Oil Field, Indiana.  1956-1958.

 

5.         Correspondence.  1946.

 

6.         Correspondence- Montpelier, Indiana- history.  1956-1957.

 

7.         Map of the Main Trenton Rock Field of Indiana.  1957.

 

8.         Indiana Transportation- Oil and Gas region.  1959-1960.

 

9.         History of East central Indiana Oil and Gas region.  1959-1960.

 

 

Box 12

 

Folder:

 

1.         Correspondence- Montpelier, Indiana- history.  1956-1957.

 

2.         Correspondence- Montpelier, Indiana- history.  1956-1957.

 

3.         Notes, correspondence- Montpelier, Indiana- churches.  1939-1958.

 

4.         Correspondence- Indiana- history.  1934, 1943, 1955-58.

 

5.         History- Pithole City, Penn. and Ft. McIntosh, Texas.  1946-1959.

 

 

Box 13

 

Folder:

 

1.         Tourism, 1955-1957

 

2.         Tourism

 

3.         History- old depots at Guthrie and Oklahoma City, 1958

 

4.         Maps- Chandler, Cushing, Drumwright, Oklahoma, 1939

 

5.         Oklahoma churches, 1889 (1957)

 

6.         History- Oklahoma, 1957-1958

 

 

Box 14

 

Folder:

 

1.         History- Muskogee and Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma.  1944

 

2.         Manuscript- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory: military reservation and Army post thereon.  1959

 

3.         Maps

 

4.         Maps

 

5.         Notes for manuscript.  1957

 

6.         History- Oklahoma Iron Works.  1957

 

7.         Oil- history.  1957-1959

 

 

Box 15

 

Folder:

 

1.         Oil City, Pennsylvania.  1909, 1934-1958

 

2.         Pithole, Pennsylvania; Bradford, Pennsylvania.  1934, 1958

 

3.         Titusville, Pennsylvania.  1958-1959

 

4.         Gainesville and Brownsville, Texas.  1951, 1957-1958

 

5.         Texas.  1958-1959

 

6.         Kansas.  1929, 1945-1946

 

 

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