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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International model R-202 oil field truck owned by M.R. Dixon. The truck is parked in an oil field with oil derricks in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two men servicing oil field equipment. An International model RDF-192 truck owned by "Dowell" is parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of workers positioning an International model RF-190 oil field truck near an oil derrick. The truck was owned by Schlumberger Well Servici... |
| 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: | 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: | 05 12 1927 |
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| Description: | Men set up a drum for a new rotary drill that has just been unloaded from an International Model 63 truck belonging to E.E. Neal of Wewoka, Oklahoma. The o... |
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| Description: | Dr. Herbert Tanner and Ross Moorhead standing in front of an an Okeh Ranger Oil Co. car. There is a large wooden spool in the foreground stamped Roebling's... |
| 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 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: | 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: | 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | International Truck advertisement featuring a color illustration of several International trucks, and the International Triple Diamond logo. Includes the t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Caterpillar tractor at use in oil fields. |
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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 ... |
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