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| 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: | 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: | 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 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A vast oil field displays how Oklahoma became the the largest oil-producer in the country. Caption reads: "A View of Oklahoma Oil Fields, Tulsa, Okla." |
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| Description: | Oil wells in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. Caption reads: "Oil Wells near... |
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| Description: | A view of oil rigs on the Cimarron River, 100 miles from Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 7... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An oil derrick and a steel tank are reflected in a pool in Tulsa. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International trucks, tractors and power units equipped for work in oil fields. Includes illustrations of an Internati... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front of driver's side of KB-2 Pickup Truck owned by the Golden Bear Oil Company. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front of driver's side of KB-2 Pickup Truck owned by the Golden Bear Oil Company. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck with an exposed truck bed. In the background are industrial buildings and oil wells. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "U-2 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "International U-2 power units on world's most concentrated oil l... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "UD-9A — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "International UD-9 engine owned by Overton Refining Co., Kilgo... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "UD-9A — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "International UD-9 engine owned by Overton Refining Co., Kilgo... |
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