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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from hill of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of rows of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of rows of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tulsa, and its vast oil fields. Caption reads: "Oil Fields Near Tulsa, Okla." |
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| Description: | Oil wells in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. Caption reads: "Oil Wells near... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
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| Description: | An oil truck on it way to Salt Creek oil field, at one time responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of all petroleum in the United States. Captio... |
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| Description: | An oil refinery field of the Union Petroleum Company. Caption reads: "Union Petroleum Co's. Oil Refinery at Wellsville, N.Y." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | One man is using a hand crank to pull a bucket of earth from the bottom of a pit silo. Another man stands behind him. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the construction of the concrete curbs of pit silo, including a wooden form. On the left is a young girl looking out from behind a fence. In the fa... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View along freshly upturned furrow in an open field. In the middle ground a team of three horses pulls a plow(?) through the field. Homes and factory build... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field of factory buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Marinette looking toward the mouth of the river from the tower of City Hall. Fences, fields, and industrial buildings are in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 05 30 1916 |
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| Description: | View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "... |
| Date: | 02 1928 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a winter coat and hat is pumping water from a well into ladles two other boys are holding. A shed, wheelbarrow, and wood scraps are in the ba... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man standing on a grader pulled by a team of mules along a dirt road. Cows, a fence and farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 30 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Adell Canning Company, used for canning peas. View of canning buildings with an open field in the foreground. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure for McCormick-Deering T-20 and TA-40 TracTracTors (crawler tractors), "For Heavy loads — For Steep Slopes — For Soft Soils." |
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