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Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dak...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffee County, Alabama. Average daily sale is sixty dollars and they take in lots of produce

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painful incident of the cold spell. Moral: be careful about starting a fire with kerosene

Painful incident of the cold spell. Moral: be careful about starting a...

Bradley's cartoon shows Kansas, as a stove, fighting back as John D. Rockefeller dressed in women's attire, pours Standard oil into it. As he pours, the stove explodes, toppling over a pot of "Profits" and blo... More

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways."

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A restored Gulf service station in Albany, Texas. The gasoline pumps were gravity-driven; the low pumps in the center island dispensed kerosene

A restored Gulf service station in Albany, Texas. The gasoline pumps w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A couple of people standing next to a train, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of people standing next to a train, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. F...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Hazel Friend getting dinner on a kerosene stove

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men are sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway. Gordonton, North Carolina

Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. F...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain image of coupe, engagement, family, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolution, oil industry history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolutio...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, mill, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Formerly used to moved cement, this container car is the first of one hundred to go into service as a petroleum carrier. All of the hundred cars are expected to be moving kerosene from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Chelsea, Massachusetts, by mid-April, according to the Office of Defense Transportation

Formerly used to moved cement, this container car is the first of one ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train yard, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchases some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Virginia, Pittsylvania County

Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kerosene Lantern. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Kerosene Lantern. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Pedroli, Pete ca. 1950, common in ranch houses and bunkhouses, even after electricity was available Maker: Paull's The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken b... More

[Turkish porter carrying tanks of kerosene on his back]

[Turkish porter carrying tanks of kerosene on his back]

Filed in: Turkey Supplies & warehouses. No. RC-2236. On mount: Turkey Supplies & warehouses. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tenant buying kerosene in plantation store. Knowlton Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Tenant buying kerosene in plantation store. Knowlton Plantation, Missi...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Cooking on kerosene stove

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A black and white photo of a man bending over. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a man bending over. Great Depression FSA ph...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kerosene treaters at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kerosene treaters at the Mid-continent refinery

Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

An old kerosene stove adapted to a kitchen cabinet in the home of Max Sparks. Near Long Lake, Wisconsin

An old kerosene stove adapted to a kitchen cabinet in the home of Max ...

Public domain photograph of kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Campfires along the roadside are very easily started by using some of the kerosene in the kerosene lamp. Migrant family encamped near Henrietta [i.e., Henryetta,] Oklahoma

Campfires along the roadside are very easily started by using some of ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men are sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway. Gordonton, North Carolina

Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump o...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps. Company houses, coal tipple in background. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps. Company houses, coa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Country store on dirt road, Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on right and gasoline pump on the left. The brother of the owner of the store stands in the doorway. Near Gordenton, North Carolina

Country store on dirt road, Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on ri...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The new light! Atmospheric kerosene coal oil lamp. New York, De Vries & Wood, printers [1866].

The new light! Atmospheric kerosene coal oil lamp. New York, De Vries ...

Corner of living room. Mexican house, Crystal City, Texas. Kerosene lamps are used for lighting

Corner of living room. Mexican house, Crystal City, Texas. Kerosene la...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

Mary lit the fire with kerosene; Comic song

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The new light! Atmospheric kerosene coal oil lamp. New York, De Vries & Wood, printers [1866].

The new light! Atmospheric kerosene coal oil lamp. New York, De Vries ...

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

Mary lit the fire with kerosene

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)