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| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | Men gather around International PD-80 Diesel power units as they set them up on a drill rig. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four International PD-80 Diesel power units compounded on a drill rig owned by Taubert & McKee of Fort Worth, Texas, drilling a 4,500 foot hole two miles f... |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | A photographer in the foreground takes a picture of two oil wells powered by an International PA-50 power unit and owned by Lee Petroleum Corporation. |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | Men set up a Wilson double-drum spudder made by Wilson Manufacturing Company, and an International PA-100 power unit at a well owned by Cato Oil Company, I... |
| Date: | 06 21 1938 |
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| Description: | A man sits on the back of an International D-346-F truck outfitted with a core-drilling and shallow-well-drilling rig. The truck was also fitted with an In... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressed in the clothes of a roughneck (chambray shirt, corduroy pants, high lace-up boots), Tom Redding (played by Thomas Meighan) works on an oil rig and ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man using a horse-drawn binder. The horses are wearing fly-nets. In the background are shocks of grain dotting a field, and oil we... |
| Date: | 06 18 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a driver sitting in the driver's seat of a truck on a highway in the western U.S. The open truck bed is loaded with large parts. Oil wells are in t... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck with an exposed truck bed. In the background are industrial buildings and oil wells. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road towards a man in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. The truck is hauling a large section of pipe chained to rear wheels and resti... |
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