Exhibits and programs tell of the industrial and social history surrounding the 'black gold rush' of Arkansas's oil fields. Visitors walk the rutted streets of a 1920s oil boom town, then go on a journey inside the earth to see formation of the oil strata. In the museum's Oil Field Park, see full-size operating equipment used from the 1920s to the modern era, including a 1920s standard oil rig and a 112-foot wooden derrick.
The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.
Through artifacts and photographs, the Healdton Oil Museum tells the story of oil development in Carter County and life in the bustling oil boomtowns.
The museum offers exhibits.
Harvey Sicherman, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, argues that the U.S. needs to adopt longer-term strategies to address the War on Terror and the globalization of politics and the economy.
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The Museum features 56 historic exhibits, many in relocated structures; an award-winning hands-on oil exhibition, Black Gold: The Oil Experience; and the Lori Brock Children's Discovery Center for youth eight and under. In addition, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions and special events.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).
The 10-acre Kansas Oil Museum presents the history of the discovery of oil and the growth of the oil industry within the state of Kansas, as well as the history of Butler County. The site includes historical oil field equipment and a "boom town" of historic buildings. Topics addressed include G.W. Brown’s 1860s oil well, John Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, the connection between geology and oil, farming, ranching, and Native American ways of life.
The museum offers exhibits, camps, tours, Scout programs, oil rig demonstrations, educational outreach programs, and research library access. Advance notice is needed for oil rig demonstrations and school tours. The website offers definitions of drilling terminology and a writing competition.
The Greek Revival Rotch-Jones-Duff House was built in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch, Jr. The interior is furnished to the different periods of the residence's occupation (1834-1981). The home was also occupied in turn by the Jones and Duff families, ship's agents and coal, whale oil, and oil transportation professionals. The surrounding gardens most closely reflect the period 1851 to 1935.
The museum offers period rooms, exhibits, 30-minute self-guided tours of the home, gardens, one-hour guided group tours, guided group tours with tea or a luncheon, fourth and fifth grade educational programs, lectures, and educational programs. The website offers background information for the educational programs.
Frank Phillips, an ambitious barber-turned-bond salesman from Iowa, visited Bartlesville in 1903 to assess business possibilities in the surrounding oil fields. After a series of failures that nearly caused him to abandon the business, a string of 81 straight successful oil wells insured success. By 1909, he had completed construction of the Frank Phillips Home. From then until Frank's death in 1950, the home was the setting from which he, his family and friends, and the community that grew up around them, played a key role in the development of the oil industry in America. With few exceptions, the furniture, decorations, and even personal effects are original. As a consequence, the Home depicts the lives, tastes, fashions, and values of the Phillips and their world. As an example of the personal home of an Oklahoma oil millionaire, it is a window through which visitors can step back to those times, and experience the home life of one of America's oil men.
The house offers tours and educational and recreational programs and events.
The Drake Well Museum memorializes the site where, in 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the oil well that launched the modern petroleum industry. The Museum tells the story of the beginning of the modern oil industry with orientation videos, exhibits, operating oil field machinery, and historic buildings in a park setting.
The museum offers short films, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and research library access.
This CNBC News Report describes how the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Standard Oil a monopoly when it controlled 90 percent of the world's oil refining. However, John D. Rockefeller maintained control of the oil companies that splintered off from the monopoly, securing his historic fortune.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1870s and 1880s, most companies were organized under the principles of vertical or horizontal integration. Vertical integration meant the company controlled all phases of production. Horizontal integration often resulted in monopolies because of the cooperation between companies which produced the same product.
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