Antique CIVIL War Era Titusville Pa Oil Discovery American Express Broadway Ny

  
Pennsylvania was responsible for 1/2 of the world's production of oil until the Texas oil boom of 1901. The dimensions for the frame and visible document respectively is 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches and 5 3/4 x 9 inches. I have done my best to correctly decipher most of the information below. Some guesses on signatures for AMEX appear below as well.

It was founded as a joint stock corporation by the merger of the express companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor earlier in 1850 of Butterfield, Wasson & Company). The same founders also started Wells Fargo & Co. In 1852 when Butterfield and other directors objected to the proposal that American Express extend its operations to California. American Express first established its headquarters in a building at the intersection of Jay Street and Hudson Street in what was later called the TriBeCa section of Manhattan. Sellers: Get your own map today.

The item "ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR ERA TITUSVILLE PA OIL DISCOVERY AMERICAN EXPRESS BROADWAY NY" is in sale since Saturday, May 14, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Paper\Documents\1800-1899". The seller is "theprimitivefold" and is located in Chicago, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.