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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Albertype Company photographs, circa 1880s-circa 1950
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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
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| Description: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
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| Description: | A petroleum well located in Clay City, where oil was discovered in 1936. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
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| Description: | View of the Salt Creek Oil Field. In the 1920's, one-fifth of all petroleum produced in the United States came from one oil field. |
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| Description: | An oil truck on it way to Salt Creek oil field, at one time responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of all petroleum in the United States. Captio... |
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| Description: | An oil refinery field of the Union Petroleum Company. Caption reads: "Union Petroleum Co's. Oil Refinery at Wellsville, N.Y." |
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| Description: | A large circular structure stands in the foreground of the Atlantic Refining Company Plant, the first refinery in the United States, established by Charles... |
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| Description: | View of the Okmulgee Oil Refinery. Okmulgee county was known for its oil refineries, producing 45,000 barrels a day from October to December 1919. Caption ... |
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