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Title: Contact Book 11, page 9, Contact Book 11, page 9
Identifier: di_11209
Creator: Parks, Gordon
Dates: 1944-08
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: Page 9 of contact book 11 of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Photography Project, featuring nine individual 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch photographs (numbered 15366 through 15383) taken by Gordon Parks several farms in and near Skowhegan and Vassalboro, Maine in August 1944. Brief description of each photograph included on back of contact sheet page 8.

Title: Contact Book 3, page 58, Contact Book 3, page 58
Identifier: di_11208
Creator: Parks, Gordon
Dates: 1944-03
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: Page 58 of contact book 3 of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Photography Project, featuring five individual 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch photographs (numbered 3123 through 3127) taken by Gordon Parks at the Pittsburgh Grease Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in March 1944. Brief description of each photograph included on back of contact sheet page 57.

Title: Contact Book 6, page 6, Contact Book 6, page 6
Identifier: di_11207
Creator: Parks, Gordon
Dates: 1944-05
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: Page 6 of contact book 6 of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Photography Project, featuring nine individual 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch photographs (numbered 6266 through 6274) taken by Gordon Parks at the Everett Refinery in Everett, Massachusetts in May 1944. Brief description of each photograph included on back of contact sheet page 5.

Title: Photo Memo No. 2, June 1946, Pages 4-5, Photo Memo No. 2, June 1946, Pages 4-5
Identifier: di_11210
Creator: Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Contributor: Parks, Gordon
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: Photo spread from Photo Memo No. 2, June 1946, featuring 3 photos (of 10 total) by Gordon Parks on pages 4 and 5. Text reads: "The vast establishment of the oil industry is first of all functional. Much of it is also beautiful. The intricate mechanisms which get crude from the earth, ship it where it is needed and transform it into hundreds of products on which our economy depends, often make fascinating patterns. A sampling of photographs showing the sweeping lines, the striking symmetry, and the intriguing designs of oil, appear on these pages."

Title: Photo Memo No. 3, January 1947, Pages 6-7, Photo Memo No. 3, January 1947, Pages 6-7
Identifier: di_11217
Creator: Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
Contributor: Parks, Gordon
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: Photo spread entitled "Faces," from Photo Memo No. 3, January 1947, featuring 2 photos (of 12 total) by Gordon Parks on pages 6 and 7. Text reads: "Oil is people. No document of any phase of the oil industry is complete without a roll call of the men and women who plan, guide, ad execute its countless operations. Their pictures abound in our photo file. Here the ’roughneck,’ the lab worker, the rigger, and the map maker are shown in revealing studies on and off the job. Here may be found local color in beards in the far north, adventure in the route of a river pilot, heroism in the rounds of a field nurse who averages 100 miles a day of solitary driving. Behind every portrait is a story of a personality in relation to a many-sided industry, and the candid studies on these pages are but a sampling of the human interest material in our photographic files."