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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... |
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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: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
| 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 of oil rigs. Oil was discovered at Glenn Pool Oil Field on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley, and since then the Glenn Pool has ... |
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| Description: | Oil was first discovered at Glenn Pool, which can be seen here from Sapulpa, on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley. The Glenn Pool has... |
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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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