Date: | 01 16 1927 |
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Description: | View across State Street toward cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and... |
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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: | 1915 |
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Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
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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: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
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. |
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Description: | An oil truck on it way to Salt Creek oil field, at one time responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of all petroleum in the United States. Captio... |
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Description: | An oil refinery field of the Union Petroleum Company. Caption reads: "Union Petroleum Co's. Oil Refinery at Wellsville, N.Y." |
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Description: | A large circular structure stands in the foreground of the Atlantic Refining Company Plant, the first refinery in the United States, established by Charles... |
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Description: | View of the Okmulgee Oil Refinery. Okmulgee county was known for its oil refineries, producing 45,000 barrels a day from October to December 1919. Caption ... |
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Description: | Roman Esser and Werner B. Esser stand in front of their truck. They are wearing work clothes. The truck appears to be decorated for a parade. A banner on t... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | A Texaco Super Service filling station owned by H.F. Bartsch on the corner of Park and Midland Streets. A home is on the opposite side of Midland Street. T... |
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Description: | View across street towards group of men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Perfect Oil Corporation in front of a Mobiloil truck. They are the station... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av... |
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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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Description: | View across field towards the Superior Refinery, which operated under the name Murphy Oil Corporation at another time. |
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