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| Description: | View of burning oil wells in the desert during the Persian Gulf War. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of oil wells. Each of the 196 wells are numbered, and refer to a key identifying the well by the company that owns it. |
| Date: | 05 12 1894 |
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| Description: | Oil wells in front of a tree-covered landscape, with a man working. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an oil field. In the foreground is a railroad train, and numerous shacks. |
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| Description: | An oil field called Triumph Hill held the highest density of wells in the Oil Regions. Caption reads: "Triumph Hill, Bradford, PA." |
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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: | An oil field along the Allegheny River. Caption reads: "Oil Wells on Allegheny River." |
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| Description: | Bystanders look on at the oil gusher in Ocean, New York. |
| 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." |
| 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: "Oil Fields near Tulsa, Okla." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from hill of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of rows of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
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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: | An oil scene 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 72,000 b... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
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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. |
| 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: | 06 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Trucks driving up dirt highway. There are oil wells on hills in the background. |
| Date: | 06 18 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a driver sitting in the driver's seat of a truck on a highway in the western U.S. The open truck bed is loaded with large parts. Oil wells are in t... |
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