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Kevin Grinnell, a ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø graduate and former president of the Advisory Board of Center of Education Innovation and Digital Learning, donated 96 historic oil and gas maps documenting Texas and Louisiana to

·¬ÇÑÉçÇø University’s Special Collections.

The maps, which span the 1930s through the 1960s, illustrate land ownership and location of wells from a bird’s eye perspective. “This collection is a fine addition to our petroleum history holdings,” said ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø University Archivist Penny Clark.

Edgar Tobin Aerial Surveys of San Antonio along with Zingery Map Company of Houston created a majority of the maps. Tobin, a World War I flying ace, was a pioneer of aerial cartography, which he parlayed into a million-dollar mapping corporation, one of the best mapping companies in the world.

The maps depict local landscapes and the evolution of their uses before the creation of modern highways.