Gallery
Below is a gallery of photographs, documents, publications, drawings
and other items illustrating the scope of the Briscoe Center's Energy
and Natural Resources Collections.
The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) Photography Project collection, a
component of the ExxonMobil Historical Collection, consists of
photographs amassed as an initiative of Jersey Standard's Public
Relations department and directed by former Farm Security Administration
official Roy Stryker from roughly 1943 to 1950. In the wake of flagging
public opinion, the project endeavored to improve the oil industry's
image by visually illustrating Jersey Standard’s positive impact on the
people and communities where the company had an often sizable presence,
and by documenting the company’s operations in the United States and
abroad. The images were disseminated and made available for use in local
and national newspapers and published in corporate magazines and
newsletters. Stryker’s cadre of photographers, many of whom were with
him during his years at the FSA, included Esther Bubley, Jacob Lofman,
John Collier, Jr., Arnold Eagle, Russell Lee, Sol Libsohn, Gordon Parks,
Charles Rotkin, John Vachon, Todd Webb, Edwin and Louise Rosskam, and
Harold Corsini.
