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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. The I.P.C. camp. General view of colony for the staff

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Oil, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil fields. Kern County, California

Oil fields. Kern County, California

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...

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

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...

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

Home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Sabine Farms, Marshall, Texas

Home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Sabine Farms, Marsh...

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

Oil field worker eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas

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

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Lower end of traveling block is attached to pipe in rat hole by means of rope operated off winch

Adding a length of drilling pipe at oil well in Seminole oil field, Ok...

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

A black and white photo of a pile of dirt, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a pile of dirt, Texas, during Great Depress...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil drillers talking with bits in front of them and drilling equipment in background, Kilgore, Texas

Oil drillers talking with bits in front of them and drilling equipment...

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

Drilling operations and derricks. Kilgore, Texas

Drilling operations and derricks. 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

A black and white photo of a man welding, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man welding, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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

Screwing on the bit. Hole through which mud is forced from the mud hog may be seen in the bit. Oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Screwing on the bit. Hole through which mud is forced from the mud hog...

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

Workman removing cotton seed cake from mat after oil has been removed. The cake is removed by means of a mandrel machine. Cotton seed oil mill, McLennan County, Texas. The movement of this machine was so fast that it was impossible to stop the action with fastest shutter speed of the camera

Workman removing cotton seed cake from mat after oil has been removed....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Oil field workers talking together with bits in front of them, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field workers talking together with bits in front of them, Kilgore...

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

Oil field worker eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker eating lunch, 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

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building. Oil burner displays, summer 1940 IV

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

Public domain photograph of commerce and advertising, 1920s-1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil well on Highway U.S. 50, Ritchie County, West Virginia

Oil well on Highway U.S. 50, Ritchie County, West Virginia

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

Cotton gin in the oil ghost town of Slick, Oklahoma

Cotton gin in the oil ghost town of Slick, Oklahoma

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

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State...

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

Jim Eckles, water pumper, "backup man," with drill bits used in oil well in C.C. Graber pool, Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas

Jim Eckles, water pumper, "backup man," with drill bits used in oil we...

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

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A black and white photo of machinery in a factory, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of machinery in a factory, Great Depression. F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen load their boat with rosefish. Only a thin slice from each side of the rosefish is useable as food. Fish meal and fish oil are made from the remaining parts

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen lo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Members of the oil well maintenance crew

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Members of the oil well maintenance crew

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Welders, too, are busy men in machine tool plants. Most of the oil and coolant tanks, guards and hundreds of other parts are made in the sheet metal and welding shop where men work with steel as cabinetmakers work with wood. Some machine tools, longer than a freight car, have beds so large that they can't be cast, and are therefore welded up from steel plates as much as two to three inches thick

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Welders, too, are b...

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

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Removing tubing from an oil well in order to replace a leaking section

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Removing tubing from an oil well in order to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Immediately after being caught, rosefish are shovled into the hold for packing in ice. Once called "goldfish" because of their brilliant color, the fish are finding a ready market because of their manifold uses--as food for humans, as fish meal and fish oil

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Immediately after being caught, rosefish ar...

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. The right of way gang clearing land

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Willis Garner, welder, originally from Texas. He has worked in Mexico, South America, Iraq

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw mate...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oil tank cars and storage tanks

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oil tank cars and storage tanks

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Members of the laying gang

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Substitute materials containers. New army "blitz" can. A five-gallon metal container for water, oil, or gasoline, constructed with air spaces to prevent sinking

Substitute materials containers. New army "blitz" can. A five-gallon m...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people in a lab. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people in a lab. Office of War I...

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

Clovis, New Mexico. Compartment in a new Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad caboose containing oil and grease for journal boxes

Clovis, New Mexico. Compartment in a new Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Lillie Malcolm, a garage mechanic for the Yellow Cab Company. She is installing an oil clarifier cartridge

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Lillie Malcolm, a garage mechanic for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baytown, Texas. Barge which is being loaded with oil at a refinery

Baytown, Texas. Barge which is being loaded with oil at a refinery

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General American Oil Co. of Texas, Meadows Building, Dallas. Lobby

General American Oil Co. of Texas, Meadows Building, Dallas. Lobby

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

Vermillion 380 oil platform fire location /

Vermillion 380 oil platform fire location /

Depths shown by bathymetric tints. Also shows location of Deepwater Horizon platform fire. "Source: BOEM and National Atlas, September 2, 2010." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Oil painting depicting the United States and Cuba relationship, Havana, Cuba

Oil painting depicting the United States and Cuba relationship, Havana...

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

Assorted tongs at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Assorted tongs at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gla...

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

Soda fountain at the combination drug store-medical office the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, Beaumont, Texas

Soda fountain at the combination drug store-medical office the Spindle...

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

Oil field workers eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field workers eating lunch, 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

Oil field worker drinking a bottle of milk at lunch, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker drinking a bottle of milk at lunch, 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

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, Clarendon, Warren County, PA

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

Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA

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, Warren, Warren County, PA

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

South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, Warren, Warren County, PA

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

MacDill Air Force Base, Paint, Oil & Dope Building, 7716 Hanger Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Paint, Oil & Dope Building, 7716 Hanger Loop D...

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

Brown Street Bridge, Brown Street, spanning Oil Creek, Titusville, Crawford County, PA

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

Brown Street Bridge, Brown Street, spanning Oil Creek, Titusville, Crawford County, PA

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

David Renfrew Oil Rig, East side of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.4 mile North of confluence with Thorn Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA

David Renfrew Oil Rig, East side of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.4 mile No...

Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania, and for its location in the Bald Ridge oil field. Technologically ... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Rogationtide ... springtime counterpart of the other window's main theme Thanksgiving ... with beginnings" showing farmer, oil well, ship/fishermen, Neo-Gothic church, 10 Commandments, lamp, sword, sunflowers "the state flower of Kansas," and "steep hills...like...around here!"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Rogationtide ... springtime ...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Rogationtide ... springtime counterpart of the other window's main theme Thanksgiving ... with beginnings" showing farmer, oil well, ship/fishermen, Neo-Gothic church, 10 Commandments, lamp, sword, sunflowers "the state flower of Kansas," and "steep hills...like...around here!"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Rogationtide ... springtime ...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William Macarty to Thomas Jefferson, May 15, 1786, Whale Oil; with Receipt in French
Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, March 7, 1792, with Printed Article on Cotton Seed Oil
West Oil Company Endless Wire Pumping Station, U.S. Route 50 (Volcano vicinity), Petroleum, Ritchie County, WV

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

Unloosening sections of pipe, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Unloosening sections of pipe, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas Jefferson to American Consuls in France, January 15, 1789, Circular Letter on Whale Oil Trade
Important to oil companies, and those boring for oil ... New York, April 13, 1865.

Important to oil companies, and those boring for oil ... New York, Apr...

On verso: Mechanics Oil Land Boring Co.; M. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 126, Folder 9.

American oil well said to be the oldest well in America

American oil well said to be the oldest well in America

Photograph shows remnant of an old oil well. Copyright by Caufield & Shook, Inc., Louisville, Ky. No. 106261.

Fuel Oil Storage tanks capacity of each 30000 bbls., Oxnard, [California], factory

Fuel Oil Storage tanks capacity of each 30000 bbls., Oxnard, [Californ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An Earthen Hell. The women dressed in rags stand all day in hot oil shoveling up the refuse to a terrace above them and thence into cars so that not a speck of oil is wasted ...

An Earthen Hell. The women dressed in rags stand all day in hot oil sh...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph of quarry workers, mining, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ford V-8 economy run. Chester S. Ricker, technical supervisor of AAA, preparing to weigh and measure gas and oil

Ford V-8 economy run. Chester S. Ricker, technical supervisor of AAA, ...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC area, 1920s-1930s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Griffith Consumers Co. Delivering of oil to homes in Virginia IV

Griffith Consumers Co. Delivering of oil to homes in Virginia IV

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Electric Institute of Washington. Copy of oil burner

Electric Institute of Washington. Copy of oil burner

Public domain photograph of commerce and advertising, 1920s-1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil fields. Kern County, California

Oil fields. Kern County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton seed oil plant, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton ...

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

Pushing length of pipe into the rat hole, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Pushing length of pipe into the rat hole, oil well, 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

Young son of unemployed oil worker sitting on front porch of home. Seminole, Oklahoma

Young son of unemployed oil worker sitting on front porch of home. Sem...

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

A man standing next to a water well, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A man standing next to a water well, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogr...

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

Domino players. Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

Domino players. Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

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

Oil storage tanks out of Kilgore, Texas

Oil storage tanks out of 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

Game of cards at oil workers' union headquarters. Seminole, Oklahoma

Game of cards at oil workers' union headquarters. Seminole, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depressio...

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

Oil field worker screwing on a nipple, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker screwing on a nipple, Kilgore, Texas

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

Oil field worker applying grease to rotating drill pipe, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker applying grease to rotating drill pipe, Kilgore, Texa...

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

Removing clamps from rotary tacle before lifting out drilling pipe, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Removing clamps from rotary tacle before lifting out drilling pipe, oi...

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

Abandoned railway station, now used as church, in the oil ghost town Slick, Oklahoma

Abandoned railway station, now used as church, in the oil ghost town S...

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

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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

Abandoned building in the oil ghost town of Slick, Oklahoma

Abandoned building in the oil ghost town of Slick, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in the woods. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in the woods. Office of War Informati...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a pipe. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a pipe. Office of War Info...

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

C.L. Saxton, driller; J.G. Betz, Cathead man; and L.C. Westerman, eating lunch around oil well in C.C. Graber pool of Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas

C.L. Saxton, driller; J.G. Betz, Cathead man; and L.C. Westerman, eati...

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

"Making a trip," pulling up old pipe to change bit on drilling pipe on the bottom of oil well at C.C. Graber pool of Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas

"Making a trip," pulling up old pipe to change bit on drilling pipe on...

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

Oil well derricks and oil tanks in Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas

Oil well derricks and oil tanks in Moundridge area near McPherson, Kan...

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

Derby oil company refinery. Wichita, Kansas

Derby oil company refinery. Wichita, Kansas

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Pipeline right of way through the countryside

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Removing olive pulp from bags after the oil has been extracted by means of hydraulic pressure. Lindsay, California

Removing olive pulp from bags after the oil has been extracted by mean...

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Conservation of fuel oil - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Conservation of fuel oil - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oil field

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oil field

Public domain photograph of construction site, excavation works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Handling the cake from which "soap" oil will be extracted by means of a solvent. Strathmore, California

Handling the cake from which "soap" oil will be extracted by means of ...

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

Transportation. Tank cars. This train of tank cars on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad illustrates the new plan for solid-train movement of oil. The plan cuts down the time consumed in the previous turn-around of tank car equipment, making more cars available to haul oil to the East

Transportation. Tank cars. This train of tank cars on the Baltimore an...

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

Olive pulp under hydraulic pressure for extraction of oil. Lindsay, California

Olive pulp under hydraulic pressure for extraction of oil. Lindsay, Ca...

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.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Gang clearing rocks out of the ditch

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Baytown, Texas. Turning the valve at a refinery which sends oil into the hold of a barge

Baytown, Texas. Turning the valve at a refinery which sends oil into t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cincinnati (vicinity), Ohio. Detail of the piping on the oil barges in the tow of the towboat Ernest T. Weir going down the Ohio River

Cincinnati (vicinity), Ohio. Detail of the piping on the oil barges in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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