Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Businesses and cars parked along a dusty city street with oil derricks in the background. At right is the Stephens & Company, distributors of power units i... |
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: | 1949 |
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Description: | A man drives an International LF-192 truck owned by the Chemical Process Company across a dirt field. What appears to be a storage structure is in the back... |
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: | 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: | 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: | 07 05 1938 |
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Description: | An International P-20 power unit powers an oil pump owned by the Rajo Oil Corporation. A building is in the background. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | An International P-20 power unit is used to power an oil well owned by the Overton Refining Company. |
Date: | 11 15 1937 |
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Description: | A man stands near the opened door of the corrugated shed of the Robert Bowles Oil Company. The company used an International Model 300 power unit to power ... |
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: | 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: | An oil field in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake constructed the first oil well in 1859. |
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Description: | This view of an oil field, possibly in Titusville, Pennsylvania, shows a "good pumping well." Caption reads: "Tank House. A Good Pumping Well." |
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Description: | An oil tank burns in an oil field, probably in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first oil well was constructed in 1859. In total, 35,000 barrels burned... |
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Description: | A top flow and a side flow of an oil well are shown in Bradford, the home town of American Refining Group oil refinery, the oldest continuously operating r... |
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Description: | A side flow of an oil well shown in Bradford, the home town of American Refining Group oil refinery, the oldest continuously operating refinery in the Unit... |
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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: | 1901 |
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Description: | A view of oil wells in Louisiana. On October 7, 1901, oil gushed to a height of seventy-five or eighty feet, continuing for seven hours. Caption reads: "Gu... |
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