Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Thomas K. Harnsberger Collection, Accession 38-154, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

The Harnsberger Papers were given to the Library by Mrs. T. K. Harnsberger of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on December 20, 1934.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This forty-eight item collection of papers of Thomas K. Harnsberger , 1912-1933 and n.d., contains petroleum reports, oil and geological maps, notes, a petroleum survey, printed material, and a letter to Harnsberger (February 29, 1928) as a stockholder in the E.I. Du Pont DeNemours Company .

The printed material pertains to the following topics: natural gas; oil development in Oklahoma ; the oil business; a balance sheet for White Motor Securities Corporation ; stockholders letters and statements from the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation ; statements of the National City Bank of New York ; report of the Kirby Petroleum Company ; report of the White Motor Company ; gas lifts; stockholders annual report from the National Bellas Hess Company ; report regarding the Marland Oil Company ; a balance sheet for Chrysler Corporation ; a form letter to Packard stockholders; International Paper Company ; "The Growth of Chrysler"; Fenner and Beane ; "Remarkable Experiences of H. F. Sinclair with His Government" by Robert L. Owen ; "Maps, Charts, Well Logs, Tables, Cross Sections, Etc."; code of ethics from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists ; "A Bearish Chronicle of Some Bulls"; and a bank investment plan.

The organization of this collection is chronological, excluding the printed material which has been filed together in the last folder. A biographical sketch of Thomas Kennerly Harnsberger (1889-1934) can be found in the control folder.