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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger. Closer view

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger. Closer view

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. A camp manager outside his tent

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. A camp manager outside his...

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Sherman County, Texas. Roughnecks on core drilling crew for the Phillips Petroleum Company

Sherman County, Texas. Roughnecks on core drilling crew for the Philli...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbor, New York, a newswriter in the petroleum research section of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), who is chairman of publicity of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbo...

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America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. An oil well, marked by a tall, steel derrick, is producing oil for the United Nations in the garden of a private home in Oklahoma City, capital of the U.S. southwest state of Oklahoma. Oil industrialists in the U.S. have searched for oil over nearly every foot of the ground in America. They are aided in their search by geology experts trained in reading the surface of the ground as well as test borings to detect the presence of oil, often at great underground depths. In the case of Oklahoma City the town was built before it was discovered that rich petroleum deposits lay under the town site. Oil wells were even drilled on the State House grounds near the state's Capitol building, and the flow from these wells enriched the coffers of the state government. What geologists call the "diligence" of U.S. seekers after oil has made the U.S. a great oil producing nation, though it contains but 15 percent of the proven oil deposits of the world

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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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

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

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

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

The Shoe & Leather Petroleum Company and the Foster Farm Oil Company, on lower Pioneer Run, Pennsylvania

The Shoe & Leather Petroleum Company and the Foster Farm Oil Company, ...

Photo copyrighted by Mather & Bell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa showing Carmel & Haifa Bay

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa showing Carmel...

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Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., March 31. As the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee opened hearings today on the bill just introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette (seated) to divorce the marketing of petroleum from the refining production and transportation, P.E. Hadlick, Secretary of the National Oil Marketers Association, whispers a bit of information into the Senator's ear. Hadlick was one of the first witnesses to testify in favor of the bill, 3/31/38

Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., March 31. As the Senate Judiciary ...

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Dr. Carl C. Monrad, Consultant, Petroleum Unit, Industrial Materials, Petroleum, Chemical, and Allied Products Section, Production Division

Dr. Carl C. Monrad, Consultant, Petroleum Unit, Industrial Materials, ...

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oil tank on the grounds of the international petroleum exposition

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oil tank on the grounds of the international petroleu...

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America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Over hills and mountains, across broad rivers and through densely weeded regious runs what the U.S. calls the "Big Inch," the largest oil pipeline in the world, built specially to expedite supplies of oil derivatives to U.S. armed forces and the armies of the United Nations. The pipe line extends from the oil fields of the U.S. southwest state of Texas to the New York City - Philadelphia oil district of the U.S. eastern Atlantic coast, a distance of almost 1,400 miles (2240 kilometers). It is 24 inches in diameter and delivers a daily flow of 300,000 barrels. The picture shows the pipeline in the course of building. A section, before being lowered into the trench built to receive it, has been coated with hot asphalt paint. The completed pipeline cost $95,000,000

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geologist, employed by one of the important U.S. oil companies, surveys, with the help of his "rod man" standing on the ridge in the background, a section of land to detect the presence of a possible oil deposit under the ground. "Hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil were discarded long ago in the United States. Today careful preliminary surveys and test borings precede the sinking of most oil wells. Geology experts of the important oil companies are able as a rule to read the surface of the ground accurately for the detection of oil deposits. The industry's efficient methods of finding oil have resulted in the enormous amounts of oil produced. According to a U.S. oil company official, the predictable U.S. oil total for the year 1944 will be 1,601,250,000 barrels, a great part of which will supply the armed forces of the United Nations

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ickes urges government control of oil. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes commended to a House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee today the Cole Petroleum Conservation Bill as a means to avert breakdown of state oil control before such an event occurs. The Cole Bill would authorize federal control over oil production with a view to preventing waste

Ickes urges government control of oil. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Secr...

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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. An I.P.C. refinery installation

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

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Laying of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipe line across the Plain of Esdraelon, July 1933. Welding the pipe line. By electric fleet weld method

Laying of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipe line across the Plain of E...

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Convoy of tractors. Tabor in distance

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Convoy of tractors. Tabor in di...

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Air films (1937). I.P.C [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Haifa oil tanks

Air films (1937). I.P.C [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Haifa oil tank...

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This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess water and pressed together into the blanket shown here

This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plan...

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Mural: Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, by Edgar Britton at th...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 106" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

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

Petroleum Lake in the region of Point Barrow

Petroleum Lake in the region of Point Barrow

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Oil Association spokesman at House hearing. Washington, D.C., June 22. Eric Weber, President of the Ohio Petroleum Marketers' Association, who appeared as a witness at a House Judiciary Subcommittee yesterday. The committee is holding hearings upon the Harrington Bill which affects the oil producing and distributing industry

Oil Association spokesman at House hearing. Washington, D.C., June 22....

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[5 men outside building of Peoples Petroleum Co., with sign dated 1865; Pennsylvania]

[5 men outside building of Peoples Petroleum Co., with sign dated 1865...

J258759 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by M.J. Landau, Erie, Pa. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Oil industry; Pa. Misc.; Shelf.

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...

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Laying of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipe line across the Plain of Esdraelon, July 1933. Dropping welded pipe into trench. By means of tractor cranes

Laying of the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipe line across the Plain of E...

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Tank in Haifa terminus with plane in sky

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Tank in Haifa terminus with pla...

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Preparing trench for pipe line on Esdraelon, blasting

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Preparing trench for pipe line ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp near Tabor with Bedouin tents. Arab labourers

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp near Tabor with Bedouin ten...

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger at work on Esdraelon stretch

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger at work on Esdrae...

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

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Inaugural. Sir Wauchope & [Haifa]

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Inaugural. Sir Wauchope & [Haif...

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Iraq's petroleum and gas infrastructure.

Iraq's petroleum and gas infrastructure.

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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

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

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

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

Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. Center of the oil activities showing Baba Gurka on the left

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

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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Hauling of I.P.C. pipe line sections to lay across the desert to Haifa, port of outlet on eastern Mediterranean

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

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Preparation for joining of pipes on Esdraelon, blasting

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Preparation for joining of pipe...

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

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.

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geology expert of one of the large oil companies U.S. displays two varieties of sand from an oil drilling district. The hand on the left holds dry, oil-less sand, while the one on the right holds sand rich and dark with oil. The latter oil-soaked sand, called "Simpson sand," is the goal of all seekers of oil and finding the sand in a test-boring indicates that is a well is sunk at that place the chances of "striking" oil are good. No longer do oilwell drillers in the U.S. rely on "hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil. Geologists make careful surveys of the surface of the ground to detect those geological characteristics which indicate the presence of oil deposits beneath. The industry's high efficiency has resulted in the production of enormous quantities of oil, a great part of which today propels and lubricates the planes, navies, and mechanized equipment of the United Nations' armed forces

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Petroleum Operations Building, Delaware Street, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Petroleum Operations Building, Delaware St...

Significance: Building 2840 is similar in construction and appearance to Buildings 2796, 2797, 2841, 2892, and 2893. As such, it was a building type readily adaptable to varied functions on Air Force bases. Mor... More

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

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

One Share of Stock in the Spondulix Petroleum Co.

One Share of Stock in the Spondulix Petroleum Co.

LOT subdivision subject: Industry. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. A. Pond & Co.; lithograph by Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway.

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa. Closer view

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa. Closer view

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. Tabor in background

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. Tabor in background

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Robert E. Wilson, consultant, petroleum unit, Chemical and Allied Products Section, Materials Branch, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Robert E. Wilson, consultant, petroleum unit, Chemical and Allied Prod...

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petroleum carrier designed to help the oil shortage in the East. It is estimated by officials of the Office of Defense Transportation that one thousand such cars could add more than 15,000 barrels to the daily receipts of petroleum by rail in the East

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petrole...

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and butadiene, a highly volatile gas "cracked" from crude petroleum. These raw materials for synthetic rubber are piped from freight cars into these storage tanks. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and bu...

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Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Petroleum Operations Building, Delaware Street, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Petroleum Operations Building, Delaware St...

Significance: Building 2840 is similar in construction and appearance to Buildings 2796, 2797, 2841, 2892, and 2893. As such, it was a building type readily adaptable to varied functions on Air Force bases. Mor... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger at work on Esdraelon stretch

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger at work on Esdrae...

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

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Tanks at Haifa terminus

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Tanks at Haifa terminus

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Sign at gas station, advertising a particular brand of petroleum product, New Iberia, Louisiana

Sign at gas station, advertising a particular brand of petroleum produ...

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Mural "Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use," by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use," by Edgar Britton at th...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 106" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. These three new catalytic oil "cracking" units are turning out gasoline for the new machines of war at the plant of a large U.S. refining company in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana. In the eight years of the development of the "cracking" process in producing gasoline, it is estimated that 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude oil have been saved by the oil industry. The "cracking" process subjects crude oil to heat and pressure by which the oil molecules are broken down and made to release more of their derivable elements. The drain of war on such gasoline producing units as these is shown by the fact that the U.S. has manufactured 180,000 planes since December 7, 1941, propelled by gasoline motors. For example, one U.S. Liberator four-motored bomber in a six-hour bombing run consumes 1,800 gallons of gasoline, enough to last the average U.S. civilian motorist from three to five years

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby / From a photograph taken by H.J. Smith in 1868.

Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby / From a photograph ...

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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

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

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

Big business at Industrial-Labor conference. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Big business was well represented at the Conference of Industry and Labor in the Capitol today. Here we see, left to right: Edward A. Filene, President of William Filene's sons of Boston; Maj. George L. Berry, the President's Coordinator for Industrial Cooperation who presided the meeting; and Earl H. Walker, Labor Assistant to the Vice President of Shell Petroleum Corp., of St. Louis

Big business at Industrial-Labor conference. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11...

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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. A river of crude oil. Result of an uncontrolled gusher

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

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa, with plane overhead

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa, with plane ov...

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Dropping of pipe into trench & curving. Esdraelon

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Dropping of pipe into trench & ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Welding pipes together, on Esdraelon stretch

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Welding pipes together, on Esdr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural "Petroleum Industry: Production," by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Petroleum Industry: Production," by Edgar Britton at the Depart...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 111" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

World's Fair. Night view of Petroleum Industry Exhibition and United States Steel Subsidiaries Building

World's Fair. Night view of Petroleum Industry Exhibition and United S...

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

Productive America. The University of Texas campus. Petroleum and rich farming and grazing lands produce the wealth to support a rich cultural life

Productive America. The University of Texas campus. Petroleum and rich...

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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

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

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

Machine for abstracting oil and petroleum

Machine for abstracting oil and petroleum

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Derailment of petroleum train, night of March 14, '38

Derailment of petroleum train, night of March 14, '38

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Iraq. Oil wells and camp of the Iraq Petroleum Company. (5 miles S. of Kirkuk). Kirkuk District. An oil driller. Showing full height of drill tower

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

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I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Welding pipes together, on Esdraelon stretch

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Welding pipes together, on Esdr...

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

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. Nazareth hills in distance

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] camp. Nazareth hills in distance

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

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger. Closer view

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Trench digger. Closer view

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Pipe line drawn by men through 'tunnel.' Esdraelon

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Pipe line drawn by men through ...

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

Emir Abdullah on occasion of I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] inauguration, Jan. 1935

Emir Abdullah on occasion of I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] ina...

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

Oil executive predicts suffocated marketing competition if Gillette bill is passed. Washington, D.C., April 21. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, J. Howard Pew, President of the Sun Oil Co., declared that passage of the Gillette Bill prohibiting marketing of petroleum products by producers or refiners would suffocate marketing competition, 4/21/38

Oil executive predicts suffocated marketing competition if Gillette bi...

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Mural: Petroleum Industry - Production, by Edgar Britton at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: Petroleum Industry - Production, by Edgar Britton at the Depart...

Date: 1939; dimensions: 111" x 235". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oil becomes more and more important as the war goes on the demand for oil increases. Petroleum engineers call chemical prospecting the first scientific approach to the detection of oil in the earth. The big glass condensers, with which these engineering students are working with a professor of geophysics are used in a soil analysis test. The percentage of wax left as residue at the end of the experiment indicates the nearness of petroleum to the site from which the soil sample was taken. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oi...

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Men at the wheels of large valves regulate the flow of oil into oil tankers at a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport. The oil, flowing from large storage tanks on the dock, is being transhipped to the armed forces of the U.S. and other of the United Nation. Through valves like these pour the derivative products of some of the 1,601,250,000 barrels of oil which the U.S. oil industry will produce this year. The fact that a U.S. Liberator four-motored bomber consumes 1,800 gallons of gasoline in one six-hour bombing run, enough to supply the average citizen motorist with fuel for four or five years of motoring, indicates the heavy volume of oil supplies required in the modern war

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby / From a photograph taken by H.J. Smith in 1868.

Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby / From a photograph ...

Reproduction of photomechanical print of photographic group portrait. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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