urn:taro:utexas.cah.01302 A Guide to the Kelts C. Baker Papers, 1927-1935 Original EAD encoding by Lauren Algee according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. October 2009 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Baker, Kelts C. Kelts C. Baker Papers 1927-1935 Materials are written in English. 4 in. 66-101 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Kelts C. Baker was President and Executive of the United North and South Oil Company and directed the development of the Luling Oil Fields beginning in 1919. Biographical Note

Kelts C. Baker was President and Executive of the United North and South Oil Company and directed the development of the Luling Oil Fields beginning in 1919. Baker was born in New York State. After completing school he moved to Pennsylvania to begin work in oil fields. He also worked in the automotive industry and for the United Rubber Company under Edgar Davis. He followed Davis into the oil business, moving to Luling, Texas to pursue this interest. When the Magnolia Petroleum Company purchased United North and South in 1927, Baker was retained as president.

Source: Davis, Ellis Arthur, and Edwin H. Grobe. 1929. The New Encyclopedia of Texas. Dallas, Tex: Texas Development Bureau.

 Scope and Contents

Collection consists of material relating to the oil business and oil fields in which Texas oilman Baker was interested and some notes on gold mining in Mexico and elsewhere. Included are Baker's indexes to information concerning materials and equipment as well as copies of related publications and advertisements; forms for oil, gas, and mineral leases and deeds and instructions for drawing them up; information about active fields (1935) and logs of individual wells; and maps of many oil fields in Texas and elsewhere. In addition the papers contain a series of etchings of oil-related subjects by Bernhardt Wall dedicated to Baker.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Ames, Edward W. Baker, Kelts C.--Archives. Brower, J. H. Cooper, Fred E. Davis, Thornton Johnson, Carl E. Nash, Hannah Smith, J. W. Wall, Bernhardt, 1872- Subjects Gold and gold mining--Mexico. Oil fields--Texas. Petroleum--Texas. Places Harris County (Tex.)--History--Sources. Luling (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Kelts C. Baker Papers, 1927-1935, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Publications from Baker related to petroleum and mining have been separated to the Texas History Collection, TXC 289. Baker’s maps of oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Kansas were separated to the Map Collection.

 Description of the Papers Papers: 3G409 Letters, 1928-1935 3G409 Oil well logs, undated 3G409 Oil, gas and mineral contract information: 3G409 “A Practical Handbook on Oil-Lease Contracts” (annotated typescript) 3G409 Blank forms, undated 3G409 Promotional material: 3G409 Miscellaneous advertisements and information, 1931-1925 and undated

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 3G409 The Electric Dehydrator, 1933-1935 3G409 Field reference books, 1933-34 and undated Etchings by Bernard Wall, 1927-1928: 3T234 Still life 3T234 Portrait [of Bernard Wall?] 3T234 Luling scene with house and tree 3T234 Luling oil well scene 3T234 Title page of book: An Oil Field: Luling, Texas, Bernard Wall, Etcher-Publisher, Lime Rock, Conn., 1928 3T234 “An Oil Field Edition—100 Copies” (copy number sheet) 3T234 Luling’s first oil well