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Panoramic View of Oil Wells

Date:	1922
Description:	Panoramic view of oil wells. Each of the 196 wells are numbered, and refer to a key identifying the well by the company that owns it.

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Thomas Meighan scene still for "Back Home and Broke"

Date:	1922
Description:	Dressed in the clothes of a roughneck (chambray shirt, corduroy pants, high lace-up boots), Tom Redding (played by Thomas Meighan) works on an oil rig and ...

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