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| | Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Exxon Mobile Corp. considers UT for its archives |
 | | AUSTIN (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. has confirmed that it has approached the University of Texas about housing its historical archives, including some of the papers of John D. Rockefeller and correspondence to the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh about the properties of motor oil. |
 | | The Exxon Mobil collection includes posters, publications, videotapes, more than 1 million photographs and about 7,000 three-dimensional artifacts such as signs and gas pumps, the Austin American-Statesman reported on its Thursday editions. |
 | | Exxon Mobil would not name the other universities and museums it has approached, but Carleton said it was his understanding that UT's competition includes Duke University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Delaware, the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress. |
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