Album 61. Pictorial Manual #A-5 Special. Property of Yale Oil Corp, Billings, MT, ca. 1937
Scope and Contents
P.91.61.001 - P.91.61.052 (Two folders) Note: P.91.61.002 Newspaper-"The Inland Oil Index" Mar.5,1937 is in oversized Box C.2. Also enlargements and duplicates of some of these pictures can be found in Box-B, Album 10.
Cover page - "The Yale Oil Corporation, refiners of Litening Altitude-Balanced gasoline, is pleased to present herewith pictorial views of its various operations. These combined operations bring to the ultimate consumer, the quality products and service available at all our Litening stations and dealers."
Producing: Pictures - Tank battery-Graham Well-Farland field. Yale Petroleum Co's-Jones No.1-Drilling. Producing Wells-Garland Field. After the blowout-looks like mounds of ash. Blowout explosion. What's left of the oil rig, after the blowout. Flames on the oil field. Paul Stock and McKay looking at what remains of the rig.
Refining: Pictures - Refining equipment at Billings. Refinery and welding shop with Tank being Constructed. Billings Refinery. Fractionating Towers and Vapor lines for No.4 Still. Chemical treating house-Billings. Insulated tanks for loading Road Oil Hot into trucks. Refining pump house at Billings. Pipe Line Manifolds and Filters in Pump House. Section of Hot Oil Pump House. Loading Pumps-in Pump House-Billings. Automatic Control Instuments in Control Room. General Tank Car loading and unloading racks. Crude Oil Trucks-waiting to unload at Billings. Tank Car Loading Rack for Road Oils. Men working at the refinery. High pressure cooker in Grease Factory-A section on the Grease Factory. Men in coveralls and flat-brimmed caps moving oil-drums-boxes of Hancock Pennsylvania Motor Oil-Motor Oil Can sealing machines. Yale Tires. Litening Batteries. People working in an office. Yale refinery, Worland WY-runs hidden dome crude. Control Instruments, Winnett Refinery.
Marketing: Pictures - Service Station No.1 at Billings. Service Station No.2 at Billings. Stock Yards Station at Billings. Greybull Wyoming Station. Service center (?)-Hancock guaranteed Lubrication-Man in white lab-like coat holding oil and a row of cars next to him. Vitol Lubrication Background-"Authorized vitol Service-Your Car vitolized by Chek Chart- Hancock 100% Pure Pennsylvania Mortor Oil -Vitol, Fights Friction, Greases Highest Quality Lubricants -Iverson Bros.Lubrication Specialists". Litening Gasoline tanker truck. One of many advertising billboards -Logo hat (picture #51) "Litening Altitude-Balanced gasoline Highest in High Country Popularity". Picture of a 10-gallon-hat;"Try Ten-Litening Gasoline-Made in the West for use in th West"
Promo sticker-"Yale Oil Corporation Refiners of Litening Gasoline-Billings, MT"
Dates
- ca. 1937
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Extent
From the Collection: 1.00 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Collection: Stock, Paul (Person)
Repository Details
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