Collection of documents of Petroleum Company in Russia and Haifa

Collection of documents of David Ettinger and "Successors of Chaim Cohen" Company, owners of petroleum enterprises in the South of Russia which later on placed a petroleum pipe in the sea near Haifa shores, for pumping petroleum directly from the ships and storing it in containers on the mainland. Eretz Israel and Russia, 1910's – 1950's.
Archive contains: Two large original photographs, "Chaim Cohen's warehouse and petroleum refineries near Saratov in Russia"; "Visit of Chaim Cohen owner of Petroleum company in the plant…" 1909 or 1910; five small photographs and a few later printings of photographs relating to petroleum enterprises. * Various letters most of them concerning the petroleum business. * Four architectural sketches for the Haifa petroleum pipe, 1920's. Total of 18 original items of that period + several later photographs from newspapers and books. Various sizes and conditions.