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| RMCA - Summer 1996 Newsletter PreviewWhat's in a Name? A Brief History of Phillips 66 Phillips Petroleum was born in 1903 in Bartleville, Oklahoma, back then it was named Anchor Oil & Gas. Owners Frank & L.E. Phillips starting drilling for oil in 1905, and on September 6, 1905, they struck oil. On June 13, 1917, Phillips Petroleum was incorporated with assets of $1 million dollars and a total of 27 employees with drilling fields in Oklahoma and Texas. By 1924, Phillips assets had grown to $103 million. ... In Search of the Truth In 1964, Dr Walter Ristow, of the Library of Congress, wrote an article "Half a Century of Oil Company Road Maps." This anniversary piece established Gulf Oil Company as the first distributor of road maps. Recently, while reading "Sign of the 76; Fabulous Life and Times of the Union Oil Company of California," the accompanying map dated 1910 leaves some question as to who published and distributed the first road map. This is not a conventional map collected today, but does this disqualify it as the first? And are there other maps to claim this title? ... Map Sheet Standard of Kentucky - 1930 - 1964
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