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An oil derrick that has long marked the spot of an almost two-century-old ferry landing, now (in 2015) named for longtime ferry board president John Eckels, in Sistersville, West Virginia
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Called "Little Sister," the derrick, built in 1911, drilled oil from the nearby sandy shores for the Quaker State Oil Refining Corp.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
2000 - 2020
Contributors
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Location
Sistersville (W. Va.), 39.56417, -80.99583
Source
Library of Congress
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