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H.B. Tanner and Ross Moorhead

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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...
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Field of Petroleum Derricks

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Description: Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks.
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Clay City Petroleum Well

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Description: A petroleum well located in Clay City, where oil was discovered in 1936.
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Oil Fields with Smoke

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm.
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Oil Well Pumps

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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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Superior Refinery

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Description: View over parked cars towards the Superior Refinery, which did business as Murphy Oil Corporation at another time. The oil refinery was located at Stinson ...

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