Road Map of Central Luzon. Socony

Description

original-colour lithograph.

EXTREMELY RARE folded road map of Central Luzon – one of the earliest in the Philippines – and referred to as the Socony Map of Luzon. Standard Oil was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller of the famed Rockefeller family, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States. The company’s origins date to 1863, when Rockefeller joined Maurice B. Clark and Samuel Andrews in a Cleveland, Ohio, oil-refining business which by 1870 was operating the largest refineries in Cleveland, and which together with related facilities formed the new Standard Oil Company, incorporated in Ohio in 1870. By 1880, it controlled the refining of over 90 % of all oil produced in the United States. In 1931 Standard Oil Company of New York merged with Vacuum Oil Company (another trust company) to form Socony-Vacuum, which in 1966 became Mobil Oil Corporation. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) changed its name to Exxon Corporation in 1972.Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999. The pioneer petroleum firm in the Philippines was the Standard Vacuum Oil Company of New York. In 1892, it started shipping kerosene, which replaced whale oil to make lamplight. The product was sold under the name ‘Petroleo Marca Gallo’ (Cock Petroleum). In 1897, the firm established a permanent trading center and office in Manila.