Shell Oil Building in downtown San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
One of the re-created stores inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the c...
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Exhibits from T.A. Lamb & Son, printers' shop at the Spindletop-Gladys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More
Part of an extensive, recreated general store at the East Texas Oil Mu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
A peek through the window of the recreated barber shop at the East Tex...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More
Detail of mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil b...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More
"Quittin' time," the statue of an oil worker heading home for the day,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bronze, 300-pound sculpture, by artist Lisa Perry, celebrates the work of oil-field hands during an oil boom in Navarro County in... More
Battery Park and Lower New York from the south showing the Chesebrough...
H41371 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by William H. Rau. No. 5600.
Cleaning off the rotary table with water, Kilgore, Texas
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 availabl... More
Wilson's Oil House, Lard Refinery, & Edible Fats Factory, Oil House, 2...
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South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, ...
Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More
South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, ...
Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More
Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.1...
Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania; manufactured by a short-lived, small manufacturing division of the ... More
Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.1...
Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania; manufactured by a short-lived, small manufacturing division of the ... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Paint & Oil Storage, Near intersection ...
Significance: It was constructed in the shipyard during the WWII period at Pearl Harbor. This paint and oil storage facility was built adjacent to Facility No. 56, which was originally a salvage storehouse. Loc... More
Capitol white lead - Ground in pure linseed oil by the Nassau White Le...
Advertising label for paint with U.S. Capitol in foreground. LOT subject: Paint. Copyright by C. H. & A. T. Baxter & Co. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. LC-USZCN4-13 4x5 color neg also
Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren ...
Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More
South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, W...
Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...
Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More
Brown Street Bridge, Brown Street, spanning Oil Creek, Titusville, Cra...
Significance: The Brown Street Bridge is representative of the type of small steel and iron truss bridge that was favored by smaller municipalities and rural settlements during the last quarter of the nineteent... More
Andy Chambers Homestead, Barn, Approximately 25 feet east of Gas and O...
Survey number: HABS WY-83-E Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pure Oil Service Station, Intersection of U.S. 130 Northbound & Collin...
Significance: The Pure Oil Service Station is a remarkably well-preserved example of an early corporate design service station. The Pure Oil Company developed the Tudor Revival style cottage architecture as a ... More
Pure Oil Service Station, Intersection of U.S. 130 Northbound & Collin...
Significance: The Pure Oil Service Station is a remarkably well-preserved example of an early corporate design service station. The Pure Oil Company developed the Tudor Revival style cottage architecture as a ... More
George Delano & Sons Oil Works, South & South Second Streets, New Bedf...
Significance: The Delano oil works appear on the earliest (1834) maps of New Bedford. The works were typical of the sort built in the area after 1810, following the style of houses built by the Quaker whaling ... More
Burkburnett, Texas, the world's wonder oil pool, showing 8 months phen...
J234159 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Almeron Newman; May 7, 1919. On front: "Panorama by Almeron Newman Photographic Co., 115 N. Gold Ave., Deming, New Mexico, copyrighted, April, 1919, B.B. series ... More
Saddlehorn Area, Oil Storage Building, Center of maintenance yard, Fru...
Significance: The oil storage building displays National Park Service Rustic Style Architecture. Survey number: HABS CO-174-D Building/structure dates: 1938 Initial Construction
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Oil House, 65...
Significance: The D,L & W oil house supplied lubricating, cleaning and fuel oils to the locomotives and machinery at the railroad's Scranton yards. It is representative of early twentieth-century oil handling ... More
The mammoth trees (Sequoia gigantea), California (Calaveras County) / ...
Print shows several giant sequoias, each identified by name, circumference, and height, with a small building in the middle ground and tourists walking among the trees.
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Paint & Oil Storehouse, Avenue D near S...
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Goose Creek Oil Field, Panoramic Photograph
J234710 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. J. Schlueter; June 2, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: Houston, Texas.
Southern Pacific Railroad, Carlin Shops, Oil House, Foot of Sixth Stre...
Survey number: HAER NV-26-B Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
Lindholm Oil Company Service Station, 202 Cloquet Avenue, Cloquet, Car...
Survey number: HABS MN-118 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oakland Naval Supply Center, Paint & Oil Storehouses, Between G & I St...
Survey number: HABS CA-2614-FF Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction
Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...
Significance: Building 5767 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force erected Building 5767 during 1985-1990 as a sheltered oil storage tank. Survey number: HAE... More
Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...
Significance: Building 5767 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force erected Building 5767 during 1985-1990 as a sheltered oil storage tank. Survey number: HAE... More
Hill Field, Quatermaster Gas & Oil House, 7326 Wardleigh Road, Layton,...
Significance: This Gas & Oil Station provides information about the processes involved in supplying gasoline to motor vehicles used at Hill Field during and after World War II. In addition, it contributes to a... More
Cedar City Automotive Repair Shop, Gasoline and Oil House, 820 North M...
Significance: The Cedar City Automotive Repair Shop was one of four central repair shop sites established by the federal government in the intermountain region of the western United States to service vehicles a... More
Cedar City Automotive Repair Shop, Gasoline and Oil House, 820 North M...
Significance: The Cedar City Automotive Repair Shop was one of four central repair shop sites established by the federal government in the intermountain region of the western United States to service vehicles a... More
Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by me...
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West Oil Company Endless Wire Pumping Station, U.S. Route 50 (Volcano ...
Significance: A rare example of a technology which was once considered to be the best available means of long distance power transmission. The endless-wire cable method was introduced and advanced in the Unite... More
Cleaning off the rotary table with water, Kilgore, Texas
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Clothing of oil drilling workers drying on steam pipe, Kilgore, Texas
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Miscellaneous pots and pans at the general store that is part of the S...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More
![[Lincoln portrait printed in oil colors by Bingham & Dodd.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjUvMDEvMDEvbGluY29sbi1wb3J0cmFpdC1wcmludGVkLWluLW9pbC1jb2xvcnMtYnktYmluZ2hhbS1hbmQtZG9kZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/51/webp "[Lincoln portrait printed in oil colors by Bingham & Dodd.]")
[Lincoln portrait printed in oil colors by Bingham & Dodd.]
Facsimile of Lincoln's signature at bottom of portrait. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Costumes, characters, etc. Oil press - stereocsopic card
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Oil painting "The Echo" located at the Federal Building and U.S. Court...
Artist: Gustave Henry Mosler, ca. 1900. Dimensions: 50 x 71 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photo... More
Pres. Coolidge receiving a book containing oil paintings of scenes in ...
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Michigan; Shelf; PI; Presidential I.; Shelf.
Early automobiles - Havoline Oil Co.
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Havoline Oil Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Oil distributer at work spreading oil on dirt road
Photo by FSA. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Road construction; Shelf.
The towers of oil / J. Pennell.
Smokestacks with railroad tracks in foreground. Wuerth 568. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Freedom Oil Works in Freedom, Pennsylvania. Gasoline distillery I
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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....
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Delegation composing the Council of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma...
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Havoline Oil Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
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Federal Oil Conservation Board, 1/19/25
A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation on Wisconsin Ave. w...
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Griffith Consumers Co. Delivering of oil to homes in Virginia III
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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....
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![[Oil painting portrait] - Public domain portrait painting](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzEvMDEvMDEvb2lsLXBhaW50aW5nLXBvcnRyYWl0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/51/webp "[Oil painting portrait] - Public domain portrait painting")
[Oil painting portrait] - Public domain portrait painting
A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Electrol oil burner
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"Shell" oil tanks near Haifa. Other smaller tanks in Shell Co. yard.
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L to r: Sen. Gerald P. Nye, Sen. Homer T. Bone, at special meeting cal...
Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Close up of oil painting "Contemporary Justice and Woman," first floor...
Artist: Emil Bisttram, 1937. Dimensions: 11' 10" x 7' 4". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More
Oil station and house. Gemmel, Minnesota
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Oil painting "Government Aids to Harbor Navigation" located on west wa...
Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More
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.
A black and white photo of a man welding, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...
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Forest of oil derricks. Kigore, Texas
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Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole oil field, Ok...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Oil worker eating lunch. Kilgore, Texas
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A black and white photo of a group of men, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...
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Detail of pumping rig, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma
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Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole oil field, Ok...
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A black and white photo of a person working on a piece of wood, Great ...
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Derricks in residential section of Kilgore, Texas. Notice church
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Spencer-Kellogg Company, manufacturers of linseed oil. Minneapolis, Mi...
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Fractionating tower. Oil refinery, Seminole, Oklahoma
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cafes on main street of Saint Louis, Oklahoma. This is a onetime oil b...
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Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery
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Negro working on machine in cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Tex...
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A black and white photo of two men working on a construction site, Tex...
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Unloading cotton seed at cotton seed oil mill, Waco, Texas
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![Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. "Shemen" oil works. Gen[eral] view of the oil packing dep't [i.e., department]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzkvMDEvMDEvamV3aXNoLWZhY3Rvcmllcy1pbi1wYWxlc3RpbmUtb24tcGxhaW4tb2Ytc2hhcm9uLWFuZC1hbG9uZy10aGUtY29hc3QtdG8taGFpZmEtOTktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/29/webp "Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. \"Shemen\" oil works. Gen[eral] view of the oil packing dep't [i.e., department]")
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
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Home of oil field truck driver. Seminole, Oklahoma
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Oil well on the pump. Slick, Oklahoma
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A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...
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A black and white photo of a puddle of water, Great Depression. FSA/OW...
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A black and white photo of a dirty field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...
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Oil field, Marion County, Illinois
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Oil field, Marion County, Illinois
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Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean Crackin...
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Oil worker eating lunch, works for Continental oil company. Moundridge...
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Oil. Parts of the huge distillation unit at Bradford, Pennsylvania, a ...
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