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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men load a shell with nitro-glycerine in preparation of shooting an oil well at Flatrock Pool, between the cities of Tulsa and Skiatook. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men load a shell with nitro-glycerine in preparation of shooting an oil well at Flatrock Pool, between the cities of Tulsa and Skiatook. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Shooting an oil well 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: "Sho... |
| 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: | 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International highway truck operated by Mistletoe Express Service, Inc. Original caption reads: "The truck shown was traveling on a busy highway leading ou... |
| 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... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a KB-3 truck with specially built body to carry 300 quarts of nitroglycerine. The truck is being loaded at the dump, ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on the platform of an oil well. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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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| Description: | Worksite with tractor at an oil rig. |
| Date: | 11 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up of front of tractor at worksite. Oil rigs are in the background. |
| Date: | 11 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on either side of a Shaffers Bear Cat Hoist and a McCormick tractor. The base of an oil rig is in the background. |
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