Standard Oil (N.J.): An Expanding Universe
“The chart on these pages is a study in corporate evolution.”
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Description
This interstellar diagram shows the ‘corporate evolution’ of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (eventually Exxon). The upper panel shows the growth of the parent company, Standard Oil until it was “destroyed” by the 1911 Supreme Court decision that ruled the organization as an anti-competitive monopoly.
The subsequent breakup into over two dozen small companies is depicted, with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey coalescing in the bottom sheet into one of the largest. Its solar system of subsidiaries and affiliates number over 200, though only the largest are represented.
The image was drawn by Elmer Smith and William Wolfson and published in a 1940 edition of Fortune Magazine.
Map Details
Publication Date: 1940
Author: Elmer Smith and William Wolfson
Sheet Width (in): 13.75
Sheet Height (in): 22
Condition: A-
Condition Description: Two sheets joined along a horizontal centerfold with archival tape on the verso of the lower page. A small seam is visible where the two sheets are joined, but otherwise in very good condition.
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