Article ID: CBB518925051

Picturing “Oil That Is People”: Energy Frontier Domesticity in Louisiana, 1944 (July 2021)

unapi

It is 1944 in the oil fields of southern Louisiana. A woman stands at the stove in the kitchen of her home while her daughter Anna plays with Esso, the family’s cat, at the kitchen table (figure 1). The caption of the photograph identifies the woman simply as “Mrs. Moseley,” and she appears to be making coffee or tea at a stove that has been retrofitted with a gas range. The calendar on the wall displays the amiable face of a dog. The cat, Esso, is named after an oil company mascot who would later appear in advertisements as a much larger feline admonishing drivers to “put a tiger in your tank.”1

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB518925051/

Similar Citations

Book Theriot, Jason P.; (2014)
American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands (/isis/citation/CBB001422286/)

Book John Thomas Arnold; (2020)
A thousand ways denied: The environmental legacy of oil in Louisiana (/isis/citation/CBB664447668/)

Thesis Moran, Michelle Therese; (2002)
Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana (/isis/citation/CBB001562219/)

Book Manes, Claire; Landry, Edmond; (2013)
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family (/isis/citation/CBB001550467/)

Book McLennan, A.D.; (2008)
Texas & New Orleans Railroad: SP's lines in Texas and Louisiana (/isis/citation/CBB655994317/)

Book Moran, Michelle Therese; (2007)
Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States (/isis/citation/CBB000830138/)

Book Chamberlain, Kathleen P.; (2000)
Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil 1922--1982 (/isis/citation/CBB000650487/)

Book LeMenager, Stephanie; (2014)
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (/isis/citation/CBB001422323/)

Book Ottinger, Gwen; (2013)
Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges (/isis/citation/CBB001450638/)

Thesis Wolfson, Mariel Louise; (2012)
The Ecology of a Healthy Home: Energy, Health, and Housing in America, 1960--1985 (/isis/citation/CBB001567387/)

Article Barrett, Mary L.; (2010)
Earthen Pits in U.S. Petroleum Fields: A History of Nomenclature and Related Usage (/isis/citation/CBB001033667/)

Article Raechel Lutz; (July 2020)
Petroleum's Park: How Oil Shaped the Palisades Interstate Park, 1900–1960 (/isis/citation/CBB896872358/)

Article Edenborn, Harry M.; (2001)
American Petroleum Institute Project 43 and the Origin of Modern Petroleum Microbiology (/isis/citation/CBB000700902/)

Book Tigges, John; Schaffer, James; (2006)
Iowa's Last Narrow-gauge Railroad (/isis/citation/CBB715945012/)

Book Brasher, Larry E.; (2006)
Santa Fe Locomotive Development: The Journey to Supreme Steam and Pioneer Diesels (/isis/citation/CBB291156817/)

Book Michael E. Haskey; (2016)
Aircraft Carriers: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Important Warships (/isis/citation/CBB353879504/)

Authors & Contributors
Moran, Michelle Therese
Hogan, Thor
Haskey, Michael E.
Tigges, John
John Thomas Arnold
Schaffer, James
Concepts
Petroleum industry
Energy resources and technologies
Illustrations
Railroads
Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
Oil; natural gas
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Louisiana (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Palisades Park
United Kingdom
Middle and Near East
Institutions
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch-Shell - firm)
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment