Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | One of Wisconsin's most successful start-ups was Clark Oil Company. |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | Food not gas is now the fuel of choice at Monty's Blue Plate Diner in Madison. This former station once again serves as the lively neighborhood meeting pla... |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
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... |
Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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Description: | International heavy duty truck (possibly a model 103) loaded with coal outside the Shera Coil and Oil Company building. In the background is a bridge and ... |
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Description: | Reiss Oil Company yard, with large tank, at the end of East Water Street. |
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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