Oil and gas
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Roy M. Huffington Oil Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0575
Overview
This collection documents the business history of the Roy M. Huffington, Inc., also known as Huffco. There are photos, correspondence files, videos, as well as awards and speeches that Roy M. Huffington gave while he served as CEO and president of the company.
Dates:
1958 - 2008
Rush Moody, Jr. Federal Power Commission records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0823
Overview
The collection consists of materials from and related to the term of Rush Moody, Jr. on the Federal Power Commission from 1971 to 1976.
Dates:
1971 - 1985
Texas City disaster records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0529
Overview
The Texas City disaster records were created and / or maintained by survivor Robert M. Morris, of Texas City, TX. The reports, statements, images and notes describe the events of the April 16, 1947 when a French ship carrying fertilizer on Galveston Bay caught fire and exploded, causing disaster on shore at the nearby Monsanto styrene plant and other petroleum refineries, homes, warehouses, ships and buildings. At least 576 were killed and 4,000 injured, with the town being almost completely...
Dates:
1947-2003; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1949
Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle Boughton Sharp Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0271
Overview
Correspondence, scrapbooks, business papers, ledgers, tributes and memorials, audiotapes of oral history interviews, clippings, photos, and other papers of Sharp and his wife, Estelle (Boughton) Sharp, active in Houston, Tex., civic and philanthropic affairs. Topics include oil industry, lives of the Sharp family, Howard Hughes family, growth of Houston, Spindletop Oil Field, founding of the Texas Company and Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, and establishment of United Charities.
Dates:
1868 - 1978