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Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in the Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Clamps are put in place; wrench applied to loosen pipe; mud spurting out as the sections of pipe are loosened; freed is moved over to rat hole; lower end of traveling block is attached to pipe in rat hole by means of rope operated off winch. This entire operation takes from twenty to thirty seconds

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Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in the Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Clamps are put in place; wrench applied to loosen pipe; mud spurting out as the sections of pipe are loosened; freed is moved over to rat hole; lower end of traveling block is attached to pipe in rat hole by means of rope operated off winch. This entire operation takes from twenty to thirty seconds

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1939

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Contributors

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

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Location

Seminole, 35.22452, -96.67057

Google Map of 35.2245201, -96.670573

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html