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| Date: | 05 12 1927 |
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| Description: | Men set up a drum for a new rotary drill that has just been unloaded from an International Model 63 truck belonging to E.E. Neal of Wewoka, Oklahoma. The o... |
| 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: | Men set up a Wilson double-drum spudder made by Wilson Manufacturing Company, and an International PA-100 power unit at a well owned by Cato Oil Company, I... |
| 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: | 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: | 11 10 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men work at an oil well site powered by an International Model P-30 power unit mounted on a truck. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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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