Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1971.001.002 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Zink, John Steele |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
01/29/1971 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. Click here to view the PDF file. |
Scope & Content |
*CAUTION - Listening discretion is advised. This recording contains expletives and subject matter some individuals may find objectionable. Audio recording containing an oral history interview of John Steele Zink and Swannie Estelle Smith Zink at the Zink family ranch northwest of Tulsa, OK, conducted by Pendleton Woods and Ed Spillman on January 29, 1971. The recording is 02:04:40 in length. 00:00:01 Iowa origins, moving to Norman, OK, going to OU 00:18:00 working at Oklahoma Natural Gas, challenges, memories, & interest in burners 00:30:00 John Zinc Company, time in Seminole, OK, memories of the petroleum industry 00:47:15 first Zink Company plant and land 00:56:45 Zink Company foreign dealings 01:01:30 Zink stories 01:22:00 recollection of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 01:28:00 recollections of Charles Page, John Daniel Mayo, & Bill Skelly 01:35:30 making a motion picture, ranch stories, & famous Oklahomans 01:43:10 stories of entertaining visitors & wolf hunting 01:58:20 how Skiatook got its name 01:59:40 Zink's father and grandfather 02:00:50 boiler and burner development at John Zink Company |
Search Terms |
Blacks cattle & cattle ranching Greenwood District John Zink Company Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation oral history interviews ranches & ranching refineries Seminole, OK Skiatook, OK Texaco, Inc. Tulsa Race Massacre University of Oklahoma Zink Ranch |
People |
Braden, Glenn T. King, Fern Mayo, John Daniel Mullendore, Eugene Claremont Page, Charles Skelly, William Grove "Bill" Wills, Johnnie Lee Woods, Pendleton "Pen" Zink, John Steele Zink, Swannie Estelle Smith |