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Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. The best is none too good for the mechanized divisions of our Army and Navy. These are distillation units with run-down and coal storage tanks in the foreground

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-grade lubricants needed to operate ships, guns, tanks, and planes

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Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-grade lubricants needed to operate ships, guns, tanks, and planes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock

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Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-grade lubricants needed to operate ships, guns, tanks, and planes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. The best is none too good for the mechanized divisions of our Army and Navy. These are distillation units with run-down and coal storage tanks in the foreground

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1029.

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pennsylvania cambria county oil city safety film negatives lot 2051 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo are distillation units quaker state storage tanks office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history industrial history coal mines and mining mining industry library of congress
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01/01/1941
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label_outline Explore Lot 2051, Quaker State, Oil City

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pennsylvania cambria county oil city safety film negatives lot 2051 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo are distillation units quaker state storage tanks office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history industrial history coal mines and mining mining industry library of congress