Oil Industry Development
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- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
Built at a moment of civic pride, the new university sprang up beside the fabled White City of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The fairgrounds featured a spectacular Standard Oil exhibit of a miniature refinery surrounded by a strange colonnade of Ionic columns with alternating oil-filled lamps and vases.
chapter: CHAPTER 17 - Captains of Erudition