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Burkburnett north-west extension from opposite Golden Cycle well

Burkburnett north-west extension from opposite Golden Cycle well

J234970 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Almeron Newman Photographic Co.; June 10, 1919. On front: "Copyright June 1919, all rights reserved, The Almeron Newman Photographic Company, 115 N. Gold Ave., D... More

Pleasant Grove Church district,  Panoramic Photograph

Pleasant Grove Church district, Panoramic Photograph

Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; November 17, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 196.

De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla.

De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla.

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

Bayou La Fourche, gelatin silver print

Bayou La Fourche, gelatin silver print

Signed in pencil on back of photo. Photograph made with Widelux Camera. Purchase; Laura Volkerding; 1978; (DLC/PP-1978:177).

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

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

McKenna-Jojo Air Lease, Kane Field, Kane, McKean County, PA

McKenna-Jojo Air Lease, Kane Field, Kane, McKean County, PA

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

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

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

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

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

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

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The 1920s was a flamboyant period in Oklahoma, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. It was a time when wealthy oilmen built lavish estates. Waite Phil... More

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

"Jack Squib" loaded with dynamite, caps and fuse, ready to drop into well for shot-- oil field in Penn'a, U.S.A

"Jack Squib" loaded with dynamite, caps and fuse, ready to drop into w...

Stereograph showing oil field workers. J193097 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1914 by Keystone View Co. No. 20351.

Bull Bayou, gelatin silver print,  Panoramic Photograph

Bull Bayou, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

J240272 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Grabill's Studio; November 24, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: Shreveport, La.

Looking towards Burkburnett from 3/4 mile west

Looking towards Burkburnett from 3/4 mile west

J234148 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; May 5, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 141.

Bull Bayou Field, gelatin silver print

Bull Bayou Field, gelatin silver print

J239827 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Grabill Studio; February 28, 1920. Oil wells labeled on image.

Birds eye view, Homer Pool, section #2

Birds eye view, Homer Pool, section #2

J240132 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Grabill Studio; March 15, 1920. Copyright claimant's address: Shreveport, La. No. 158. Oil wells are labeled on image.

Kirkuk district--A river of crude oil--Result of an uncontrolled gusher

Kirkuk district--A river of crude oil--Result of an uncontrolled gushe...

Item in album: no. 4852. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.

Carol M. Highsmith - Oil refinery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Oil refinery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... 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

Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.15 mile East of Powder Mill Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA

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

Petrolium [sic] Development Co., Kern River

Petrolium [sic] Development Co., Kern River

J138340 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; February 17, 1910; DLC/PP-1910:43982. Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 115 East Jefferson St., Los Angeles. Price, $1.50. No. 62... 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

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

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

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

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

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, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

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

George Delano & Sons Oil Works, South & South Second Streets, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

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 phenomenal development, viewed from the northwest side, opposite Fowler farm, original discovery well and swinging towards the northwest

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

Street in Oil City, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Street in Oil City, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Stereograph showing view down street with raised arm of a crossing gate, Oil City, Pennsylvania.

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

Pleasant morning -- Rouseville, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Pleasant morning -- Rouseville, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope...

Stereograph showing a group of men standing and sitting outside a small building on which are signs for the "Wallace Oil Company," the "Allegheny & Pittsburgh Oil Co.," the "Oil Basin Petroleum Co.," the "Bucha... More

Petroleum Lake in the region of Point Barrow

Petroleum Lake in the region of Point Barrow

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

Before the Trojan horse is admitted the puzzled citizen will have to be shown a little more fully

Before the Trojan horse is admitted the puzzled citizen will have to b...

A worried man dressed as a farmer, labeled "The Puzzled Citizen," scratches his head while standing near a box marked "$" near the doorway of a barn marked "Missouri." He is confronted by an octopus symbolizin... More

Hardin from the north,  Panoramic Photograph

Hardin from the north, Panoramic Photograph

J234149 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; May 5, 1919. Photographer's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 139.

Texas Co., Abrams no. 1 flowing 26,000 barrels

Texas Co., Abrams no. 1 flowing 26,000 barrels

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam names a committee of nine to consider legislation for Conservation of Country's Oil Resources. A Committee of None composed of three representatives of the Government, a like number from the petroleum industry and three representatives from the American Bar Association, were named by the Federal Oil Conservation Board today to consider a legislative program for the conservation of the country's natural petroleum resources. The Committee of Nine is shown standing in the photograph, left to right: W.S. Farish, Humble Oil Company, Texas; James A. Veasey, American Bar Association; Henry M. Bates, American Bar Association; Edward C. Finney, Assistant Secretary of Interior; Thes. A. O'Donnell, California Petroleum Company

Uncle Sam names a committee of nine to consider legislation for Conser...

A black and white photo of a group of men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burkburnett, Tex., April 24th, 1919,  Panoramic Photograph

Burkburnett, Tex., April 24th, 1919, Panoramic Photograph

J234157 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Raymond; March 5, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 2004 McKinney Ave., Dallas.

[Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 1919],  Panoramic Photograph

[Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 1919], Panoramic Photograph

J232032 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Raymond; January 27, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: Dallas. Title derived from duplicate of this photo.

Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.15 mile East of Powder Mill Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA

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, 0.15 mile East of Powder Mill Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA

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

Petrolium [sic] Development Co., Kern River

Petrolium [sic] Development Co., Kern River

J138340 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; February 17, 1910; DLC/PP-1910:43982. Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 115 East Jefferson St., Los Angeles. Price, $1.50. No. 62... 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

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

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

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, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondi...

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

Telegram Building, 227 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

Telegram Building, 227 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of floor plans, photographs, & advertisements. Significance: The building's significance is three-fold; architecturally, industrial, and technological. The most significant fea... More

George Delano & Sons Oil Works, South & South Second Streets, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

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 phenomenal development, viewed from the northwest side, opposite Fowler farm, original discovery well and swinging towards the northwest

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

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

J129816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); July 29, 1909. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. B.

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

J129816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); July 29, 1909. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. B.

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington ...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: When oil baron Frank Phillips built this home, his was a lonely mansion on an oil-soaked prairie. Phillips had the streets around his house paved and streetli... More

USNS Potomac, Beaumont Reserve Fleet, Neches River, Beaumont, Jefferson County, TX

USNS Potomac, Beaumont Reserve Fleet, Neches River, Beaumont, Jefferso...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Potomac was one of four tankers built for the U.S. Navy in the mid-1950s to transport refined petroleum products to American bases over... More

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

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

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

Gassing Wells, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Gassing Wells, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

No. 2753. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy s... More

The king of the combinations / J.S. Pughe.

The king of the combinations / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows John D. Rockefeller wearing a huge crown and robe, standing on an oil storage tank labeled "Standard Oil", and glaring at the viewer. The crown is adorned with railroad cars, oil tanks, and t... More

Block 818 from the west,  Panoramic Photograph

Block 818 from the west, Panoramic Photograph

J237987 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; November 22, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 202.

Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas

Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas

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

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

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

General view, Standard Oil Company, Richmond, Calif.

General view, Standard Oil Company, Richmond, Calif.

J18[...] U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: 727 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Stamped on verso: "Price, $2.25. Order by number. Mail orders receive prompt attention." No. 3119. Copyright deposit; W... More

Next!. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Next!. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows a "Standard Oil" storage tank as an octopus with many tentacles wrapped around the steel, copper, and shipping industries, as well as a state house, the U.S. Capitol, and one tentacle reachin... More

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington County, OK

Frank Phillips Mansion, 1107 South Cherokee, Bartlesville, Washington ...

2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: When oil baron Frank Phillips built this home, his was a lonely mansion on an oil-soaked prairie. Phillips had the streets around his house paved and streetli... More

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The 1920s was a flamboyant period in Oklahoma, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. It was a time when wealthy oilmen built lavish estates. Waite Phil... More

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The 1920s was a flamboyant period in Oklahoma, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. It was a time when wealthy oilmen built lavish estates. Waite Phil... More

Burk-Burnett district showing blocks 60-61-62-73-74-75-76-81-82

Burk-Burnett district showing blocks 60-61-62-73-74-75-76-81-82

J234907 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; June 27, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 154.

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, Union City, Erie County, PA

Bridge Street Bridge, Spanning Little French Creek at Bridge Street, U...

Significance: The Bridge Street Bridge over Little French Creek in Union City is a Through Pratt Truss metal bridge. It crosses Little French Creek immediately below a dam and mill pond that provided water po... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS

W. K. Bowman-O'Neal Apartment Building, 4313 East Kellogg Street, Wich...

Significance: The 1929 building is associated with multi-family Tudor Revival, Craftsman influenced architecture popular in Wichita during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The O'Neal Apartment Building is also ... More

Letting down steel tape into well to locate position of shell-- oil field in Penn'a, U.S.A.

Letting down steel tape into well to locate position of shell-- oil fi...

Stereograph showing man in oil field readying to drop steel tape into well hole. J193092 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1914 by Keystone View Co. No. 20059.

Burk-Waggoner district, showing blocks 59-60-61-62-63-72-73-74-75-76-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-95-96-97-98

Burk-Waggoner district, showing blocks 59-60-61-62-63-72-73-74-75-76-8...

J234966 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; June 27, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 153.

Burk-Waggoner district showing blocks 72-73-83-84-85-86-87-88-96-97-98

Burk-Waggoner district showing blocks 72-73-83-84-85-86-87-88-96-97-98

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The world's wonder oil field, Burkburnett, Tex., over 850 producing wells

The world's wonder oil field, Burkburnett, Tex., over 850 producing we...

J234969 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Almeron Newman Photographic Co.; June 10, 1919. On front: "Copyright June 1919, all rights reserved, The Almeron Newman Photographic Company, 115 N. Gold Ave., D... More

West end, Burkburnett oil field,  Panoramic Photograph

West end, Burkburnett oil field, Panoramic Photograph

J234080 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Huddleston Photo Co.; April 28, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal. No. 8701.

Blocks 97-98 and Red River bed, Long view panoramic photograph

Blocks 97-98 and Red River bed, Long view panoramic photograph

J237985 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Homer T. Harden; November 22, 1919. Copyright claimant's address: 602 1/2 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas. No. 200.

Burk-Waggoner Pool, panographed from opposite King 8 well and Waggoner farm house on southwest corner of block 84, showing all blocks northwest & northeast featuring blocks 84-83-85-86-87-88-73-74-75, Lanier tract etc.

Burk-Waggoner Pool, panographed from opposite King 8 well and Waggoner...

J237601 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Almeron Newman Photographic Co.; September 25, 1919. On front: "Copyright Sept. 1919, all rights reserved, The Almeron Newman Photographic Company, 115 N. Gold A... More

Shallow pool, Langston and Lowenberg leases, Homer, La.

Shallow pool, Langston and Lowenberg leases, Homer, La.

J239828 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Grabill Studio; February 28, 1920. Oil wells labeled on image. Copyright claimant's address: Shreveport, La. No. 156.

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