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Western History Collections
Harold Beach Goodrich Collection
Box G-9:
Reprints related to the oil industry, formal research notes, handwritten notes.
Folder
1. Fowler,
H.C. “Development in the American Petroleum Industry, 1914-19: Exploration,
Drilling, Production and Transportation.” Information Circular 7171
(June 1941). Department of the Interior - Bureau of Mines. In addition, typed notes (35 pages) on Information
circular 7171 by Goodrich.
2. Typed
formal research notes on the oil industry, and commentary on the work of other
researchers within the field.
3. Typed
formal research notes on the oil industry, and commentary on the work of other
researchers within the field.
4. Handwritten
informal notes.
Box G-8:
Business correspondence, charts and graphs, newspaper clippings, reports and
speech written by Goodrich and published materials.
Folder
1. Business
correspondence relating to the oil industry and the research conducted by
Goodrich (1931-1943).
2. Charts
and graphs relating to oil production. Several are original hand drawn copies
with a fragile nature; others are copies of these originals. Several of the
charts were compiled by Goodrich. The charts include “History of Oklahoma Oil
Production During 1930;" a correlation chart of oil production; “Oil
Production Yearly of California;” record copied and transferred to graphic log
form by Goodrich from “Observations on the Saliferous Rock Formations in the Valley
of the Ohio;” “Production Conditions of Venango, PA Oil District;” chart of the
historical analysis for comparison occurrences of petroleum in North America;
“Graphic Representation of Early Drilling Records.”
3. Newspaper
clippings on the topic of increased oil production during 1939-1940.
4. Formal
written papers and reports by Goodrich: Report of the Chanslor and Canfield
Midway Oil Company (September 18, 1904); Early Discoveries of Petroleum
in the United States (1932); Importance of Surface Showings of Oil from
an Historical Viewpoint. In addition, one typewritten speech by Goodrich of
the paper Early Discoveries listed above.
5. Published
materials: Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineering
(July 1917); J. V. Howell, “Historical Development of the Structural Theory of
Accumulation of Oil and Gas,” reprint from Problems of Petroleum Geology (August
1934); “United States, Appt. vs. Southern Pacific Co. et al,” Decisions of
the Supreme Court of the U. S. 251
(October 1919); one copy of pages 1008-1009 of the Mineral Yearbook
(1937).
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