Thursday, February 08, 2018

The Exxon Mobil Historical Collection


Someone gathered together the documents, photos, advertisements, etc from Standard Oil, Socony Mobil Oil, Vacuum Oil of  New York, and Texas-based Humble Oil and Magnolia Petroleum, Exxon and Esso.

Comprised of an estimated 4 million documents, 1.5 million photographs, 4,000 artifacts, and more than 30,000 moving image and sound recordings, the collection's extensive series of corporate newspapers, magazines, newsletters and other serials, more than 500 unique titles covering over 100 years

The earliest material in the collection, comprised of corporate charters, contracts, correspondence and agreements, details how John D. Rockefeller and his associates founded Standard Oil in 1870

The bulk of the EMHC started in the 1950s in the public relations department of Socony Mobil and was conceived as a compilation of news clippings, correspondence, printed material, and photographs

Researchers can see the Pegasus trademark emerge as Mobil's icon of speed and power, and the transformation of Esso and Humble's mascot from an animated oil drop, to the "whimsical tiger" of its "Put a Tiger in Your Tank" campaign

In 2003, ExxonMobil donated the Collection to the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin


From images of the Shadoff Special, to the Summers Brothers Goldenrod. If the Shadoff sounds familiar, maybe it's because I posted it before, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/roy-rodgers-was-bonneville-racer-107.html it was designed by Dean Batchelor



To Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St Louis to Cobb and the Railton Special



Even fueling B17s in Alice Springs Australia


https://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/exxonmobil_gallery.php

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