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| Date: | 11 30 1937 |
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| Description: | Road construction workers using an International TD-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and an Adams Model 4 grader owned by the City of Signal Hill. |
| 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: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | A driver sits in the first of several International heavy-duty oil trucks lined up in front of an oil field. The nearest truck's lettering reads: "Barringt... |
| 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. |
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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 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake constructed the first oil well in 1859. |
| 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: | 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. |
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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. |
| 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Three men are working outdoors. Subject: "Oil Drilling — TD-9." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-9 owned by South Bend Oil Co., Br... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "Oil Drilling — TD-9." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-9 owned by South Bend Oil Co., Bradford, Pa. Producing company of... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Minard Run Oil Co., Custer City, Pa. The tractor in th... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Minard Run Oil Co., Custer City, Pa. The tractor in th... |
| 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: "U-4 — Oil Field Preparation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Danciger Drilling & Refining Co., Baton Rouge, ... |
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