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| Date: | 11 30 1937 |
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| Description: | Road construction workers using an International TD-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and an Adams Model 4 grader owned by the City of Signal Hill. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | Men standing next to an International heavy-duty oil truck. Two delivery drivers from Barrington Transfer Company are in the cab of the truck. An oil well ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two men servicing oil field equipment. An International model RDF-192 truck owned by "Dowell" is parked in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Dr. Herbert Tanner and Ross Moorhead standing in front of an an Okeh Ranger Oil Co. car. There is a large wooden spool in the foreground stamped Roebling's... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man opens the passenger door of an International truck owned by the Chemical Process Company to speak to the truck's driver. The automobile hauls a trai... |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | Men gather around International PD-80 Diesel power units as they set them up on a drill rig. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four International PD-80 Diesel power units compounded on a drill rig owned by Taubert & McKee of Fort Worth, Texas, drilling a 4,500 foot hole two miles f... |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | A photographer in the foreground takes a picture of two oil wells powered by an International PA-50 power unit and owned by Lee Petroleum Corporation. |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | A man sits on the back of an International D-346-F truck outfitted with a core-drilling and shallow-well-drilling rig. The truck was also fitted with an In... |
| Date: | 06 27 1938 |
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| Description: | Men stand on a platform behind an International C-40 truck outfitted with an A-4 power unit and a Wilson winch. The truck and equipment were owned by Joe L... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | D.W. Norred (left), International Shreveport branch, Roy Foster, switchman of the Rajo Oil Corporation, and Jack Anderson of Jack Anderson Company, an Inte... |
| Date: | 11 16 1937 |
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| Description: | Men stand on an oil rig owned by Shoeffer Specialty Oil Wells Drilling. The operation was powered by two International PD-80 power units. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing white hats stand near a drilling rig on which two International PA-50 power units are compounded. The machine on the right has a sign readi... |
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| Description: | Drake Well, named for Edwin Drake, is credited as the first oil well and was constructed in 1859. |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered a safe distance from a burning oil tank. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men load a shell with nitro-glycerine in preparation of shooting an oil well at Flatrock Pool, between the cities of Tulsa and Skiatook. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men use a 15-30(?) tractor and a grader on a dirt road. In the background are numerous oil derricks and industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man using a horse-drawn binder. The horses are wearing fly-nets. In the background are shocks of grain dotting a field, and oil we... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a KB-3 truck with specially built body to carry 300 quarts of nitroglycerine. The truck is being loaded at the dump, ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on the platform of an oil well. |
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