Wood River Museum Standard Oil Collection (199 total)

This collection of photographs and documents related to the history of the Standard Oil refinery were loaned to us by the Wood River Museum to be digitized.

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	1957 Open House Group in front Of Charter Bus man with Megaphone and Hardhat giving Tour	This is a black and white group photograph in front of a charter bus as a man with a megaphone and hardhat gives a tour. The tour is likely part of the 1957 open house tours of the Standard Oil refinery, celebrating 50 years of Standard Oil Co. in Wood River, Illnois.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Open House Tour at Standard Oil	This is an image of a group of men women and children being talked to by a woman inside of a large room. Several notes were attached to the front of the image labeled "Joy Wolf, Dottie Hull, Sherald Wanegan , Mary Wanegan."	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 People Working Standard Oil Open House	This is a black and white candid taken inside of an office building of people signing what appear to be open house attendance lists. There are piles of canisters on the table which appear to be souvenirs of oil canisters to be handed out to guests. Post-its on the front were labeled "Joan Arnold, Dick Judson, Paul Clerk for Pipefitters." The Wood River Standard Oil Collection also houses the sign in sheets located on the table.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Photgraph People walking to Barge across bridge for Open House Refinery Tour	This is a black and white image of men and women on the open house tour of the refinery, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Standard Oil in Wood River, Illinois. The persons pictured are surveying a barge and the rigging attached to it.The people pictured are walking out to barge.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Photograph People getting on Charter Bus for Refinery Tour	This is a black and White photograph of men and women stepping aboard a charter bus outside of the main office building. As part of 50th anniversary celebration Standard Oil provided tours around the refinery as an open house to the public. Note stuck to the front left of the photograph identified one man, "Ernie Hartwig."	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Photograph People on Stairway Outdoors at Open House Refinery Tour	This is a black and white photograph of people walking down a stairwell with sign "Warning no Open Lights, No Smoking, No visitors," alongside piping and assorted industrial components in the background. On the front of the image was a Post-it labeled "Josephine Stahoviak Walter Blakely." This group was likely part of the 1957 open house tours of the Standard Oil refinery at Wood River, Illinois.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Photograph People Walking from Barge Walkway to Land as Part of Open House Refinery Tour	This is a black and white image of men and women on the open house tour of the refinery, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Standard Oil in Wood River, Illinois. The persons here are touring a barge and are crossing the rigging attached to it which transported oil to the barges holding tanks.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Picnic Standard Oil 50th Anniversary Event	This is a black and white photograph of men and women outdoors next to a building with drinks in hand, as part of the 50th celebration of Standard Oil in Wood River, Illinois. Names on postits attached to front From Right to Left "George Timson, Betty Montgomery, Louise Montgomerty, Tom and Catherine Coulson, Ed Mollman."	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 RSVP for 50th Anniversary Dinner	This is a white RSVP card for Standard Oil's 50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner at the Masonic Temple in Wood River scheduled for September 9th, 1957 at 6:30 pm. The event was hosted by Standard Oil Company to celebrate its 50th-Anniversary at the Wood River, Illinois location.	1957	November 8, 2018
	1957 Standard Oil Alton Industry Exposition Booth	This is a black and white photograph of Clint and Norma Southard working the Amoco booth at the Alton Industrial Exposition in 1957.	1957	October 25, 2018