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| Date: | 06 27 1938 |
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| Description: | Men stand on a platform behind an International C-40 truck outfitted with an A-4 power unit and a Wilson winch. The truck and equipment were owned by Joe L... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | D.W. Norred (left), International Shreveport branch, Roy Foster, switchman of the Rajo Oil Corporation, and Jack Anderson of Jack Anderson Company, an Inte... |
| 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 15 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the opened door of the corrugated shed of the Robert Bowles Oil Company. The company used an International Model 300 power unit to power ... |
| Date: | 11 16 1937 |
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| Description: | Men stand on an oil rig owned by Shoeffer Specialty Oil Wells Drilling. The operation was powered by two International PD-80 power units. |
| 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: | Elevated view of an oil field. In the foreground is a railroad train, and numerous shacks. |
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| Description: | Drake Well, named for Edwin Drake, is credited as the first oil well and was constructed in 1859. |
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| Description: | This view of the monument at Drake Memorial Park shows the old Drake well-casing and commemorates the first oil well that was constructed in 1859. |
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| Description: | An oil field in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake constructed the first oil well in 1859. |
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| Description: | This view of an oil field, possibly in Titusville, Pennsylvania, shows a "good pumping well." Caption reads: "Tank House. A Good Pumping Well." |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered a safe distance from a burning oil tank. |
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| Description: | An oil tank burns in an oil field, probably in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first oil well was constructed in 1859. In total, 35,000 barrels burned... |
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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: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
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