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The History of the Standard Oil Company

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Ida M. Tarbell
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The work offers a detailed investigative history of the rise and consolidation of a dominant oil enterprise, tracing how petroleum moved from curiosity to mass industry and how competing firms were absorbed into a centralized trust. It examines business methods used to secure market control—transportation agreements, pricing tactics, acquisition and integration of allied industries—alongside legal and political struggles, regulatory inquiries, and public controversy. Drawing on sworn testimony, corporate records, court filings, and contemporary reporting, it reconstructs chronological development, key transactions, and reactions from rivals, legislators, and communities, concluding with reflections on the economic and institutional consequences of concentrated corporate power.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAIT OF JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER IN 1904 Frontispiece 1
 
  Born July 8, 1839.  
 
  FACING PAGE
 
PORTRAIT OF E. L. DRAKE 1008
 
  In 1859 Drake drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first artesian well put down for petroleum. He is popularly said to have “discovered oil.”  
 
THE DRAKE WELL IN 1859—THE FIRST OIL WELL 1010
 
FAC-SIMILE OF A LABEL USED BY S. M. KIER IN ADVERTISING ROCK-OIL OBTAINED IN DRILLING SALT WELLS NEAR TARENTUM, PENNSYLVANIA 1034
 
FAGUNDUS—A TYPICAL OIL TOWN 1034
 
PORTRAIT OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IN 1872 1040
 
PORTRAIT OF W. G. WARDEN 1053
 
  Secretary of the South Improvement Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF PETER H. WATSON 1053
 
  President of the South Improvement Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF CHARLES LOCKHART 1053
 
  A member of the South Improvement Company, and later of the Standard Oil Company. At his death in 1904 the oldest living oil operator.  
 
PORTRAIT OF HENRY M. FLAGLER IN 1882 1053
 
  Active partner of John D. Rockefeller in the oil business since 1867. Officer of the Standard Oil Company since its organization in 1870.  
 
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS A. SCOTT 1060
 
  The contract of the South Improvement Company with the Pennsylvania Railroad was signed by Mr. Scott, then vice-president of the road.  
 
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT 1060
 
  The contract of the South Improvement Company with the New York Central was signed by Mr. Vanderbilt, then vice-president of the road.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JAY GOULD 1060
 
  President of the Erie Railroad in 1872. Signer of the contract with the South Improvement Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF COMMODORE CORNELIUS VANDERBILT 1060
 
  President of the New York Central Railroad when the contract with the South Improvement Company was signed.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOHN D. ARCHBOLD IN 1872 1074
 
  Now vice-president of the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Archbold, whose home, in 1872, was in Titusville, Pennsylvania, although one of the youngest refiners of the Creek, was one of the most active and efficient in breaking up the South Improvement Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF HENRY H. ROGERS IN 1872 1088
 
  Now president of the National Transit Company and a director of the Standard Oil Company. The opposition to the South Improvement Company among the New York refiners was led by Mr. Rogers.  
 
PORTRAIT OF M. N. ALLEN 1110
 
  Independent refiner of Titusville. Editor of the Courier, an able opponent of the South Improvement Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOHN FERTIG 1110
 
  Prominent oil operator. Until 1893 active in Producers’ and Refiners’ Company (independent).  
 
PORTRAIT OF CAPT. WILLIAM HASSON 1110
 
  President of the Petroleum Producers’ Association of 1872.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOHN L. McKINNEY 1110
 
  Prominent oil operator. Until 1889 an independent. Now member of the Standard Oil Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JAMES S. TARR 1122
 
  Owner of the “Tarr Farm,” one of the richest oil territories on Oil Creek.  
 
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BARNSDALL 1122
 
  The second oil well on Oil Creek was put down by Mr. Barnsdall.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JAMES S. McCRAY 1122
 
  Owner of the McCray Farm near Petroleum Centre.  
 
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM H. ABBOTT 1122
 
  One of the most prominent of the early oil producers, refiners and pipe-line operators.  
 
FLEET OF OIL BOATS AT OIL CITY IN 1864 1136
 
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE H. BISSELL 1146
 
  Founder of the first oil company in the United States.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JONATHAN WATSON 1146
 
  One of the owners of the land on which the first successful well was drilled for oil.  
 
PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL KIER 1146
 
  The first petroleum refined and sold for lighting purpose was made by Mr. Kier in the ’50s in Pittsburg.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOSHUA MERRILL 1146
 
  The chemist and refiner to whom many of the most important processes now in use in making illuminating and lubricating oils are due.  
 
PORTRAIT OF A. J. CASSATT IN 1877 1184
 
  Third vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad in charge of transportation when first contract was made by that road with the Standard Oil Company.  
 
PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN 1184
 
  President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad at the time of the South Improvement Company. General McClellan did not sign the contract.  
 
PORTRAIT OF GENERAL JAMES H. DEVEREUX 1184
 
  Who in 1868 as vice-president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad first granted rebates to Mr. Rockefeller’s firm.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH D. POTTS 1184
 
  President of the Empire Transportation Company. Leader in the struggle between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Standard Oil Company in 1877.  
 
WOODEN CAR TANKS 1212
 
BOILER TANK CARS 1212
 
WOODEN TANKS FOR STORING OIL 1212
 
RAILROAD TERMINAL OF AN EARLY PIPE LINE 1212
 
PORTRAIT OF E. G. PATTERSON 1248
 
  From 1872 to 1880 the chief advocate in the Oil Region of an interstate commerce law. Assisted in drafting the bills of 1876 and 1880. Abandoned the independent interests at the time of the compromise of 1880.  
 
PORTRAIT OF ROGER SHERMAN 1248
 
  Chief counsel of the Petroleum Producers’ Union from 1878 to 1880. From 1880 to 1885 counsel for the Standard Oil Company. From 1885 to his death in 1893 counsel of the allied independents.  
 
PORTRAIT OF BENJ. B. CAMPBELL 1248
 
  President of the Petroleum Producers’ Union from 1878 to 1880. Independent refiner and operator until his death.  
 
PORTRAIT OF JOSIAH LOMBARD 1248
 
  Prominent independent refiner of N. Y. City, whose firm was the only one to keep its contract with the Tidewater Pipe Line Company in 1880.