1957 Picnic Standard Oil 50th Anniversary Event

50th Anniversary, industry, refineries, Standard Oil Refinery, Wood River

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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."

Wood River Museum Standard Oil Collection

• industry
• culture
• Wood River
• refineries
• Standard Oil Refinery

1957

• Standard Oil Involvement in the Wood River Community
• Standard Oil’s Company Housing in Wood River, Illinois
• Wood River

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

• Wood River, Illinois
• 1950s

• WRM-P-0053