Sohio Gas Station Attendant's Uniform
notes: label: Description
content: This is a pair of blue-grey cotton twill long pants, which were part of a Sohio Gas Station Attendant's uniform.
label: Description
content: 'Sohio' refers to The Standard Oil Company (Ohio), an American petroleum company that existed from 1870 to 1987.
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content: In 1862, John D. Rockefeller established an oil-refining company, and to try to stablise oil prices Rockefeller and Samuel Andrews, his partner, approached O.H. Payne, owner of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland. They proposed that the three men unite their companies together. The company organizers convinced numerous other Cleveland firms to join with them. In other cases, they bought out the companies or drove them out of business by selling their oil for a much cheaper price than their competitors could. In 1870, Rockefeller united these companies together as the Standard Oil Company.
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content: By 1878, Standard Oil purportedly controlled ninety percent of the oil refineries in the United States.
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content: Standard Oil Company, also called Sohio, in effect, ceased to exist after being purchased by British Petroleum (BP) in 1987, although BP continued to sell gasoline under the Sohio brand name until 1991.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Occupations
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard M. Palange
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0156.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0156.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0156
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pants
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 43 cm x 100 cm; x 16 15/16 in x 39 3/8 in