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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
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| Description: | View of the Salt Creek Oil Field. In the 1920's, one-fifth of all petroleum produced in the United States came from one oil field. |
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| Description: | Railroad Tank Cars in the process of being filled on the Wyoming Central Railway. |
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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." |
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| Description: | A large circular structure stands in the foreground of the Atlantic Refining Company Plant, the first refinery in the United States, established by Charles... |
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| Description: | View of the Okmulgee Oil Refinery. Okmulgee county was known for its oil refineries, producing 45,000 barrels a day from October to December 1919. Caption ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small town area with a windmill in the main square lined with store fronts including a drug/book store and a hardware/lumber store. A sm... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks looking towards the Bagley train station. On the right is a large storage tank. A man is driving a car near the railroad tracks n... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | A man, standing in front of three large storage tanks, is filling the tank on the back of an International Model 63 truck owned by the Townsend Oil Company... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Model 94 International truck and trailer owned by the Risdon Creamery Company parked alongside a brick building. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of town looking down a hill. In the foreground is a river with trees along the bank. On the other side of the river is a factory with industr... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | A large truckload of cranberries being unloaded into a large open storage tank. The truck has been lifted into the air on a large platform, and a woman sta... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | One of 18 International Model K-6 trucks owned and operated by Henderlong Lumber Company, Inc. A worker is operating one of three dump mechanisms to fill t... |
| Date: | 05 07 1938 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the back of an International D-30 truck owned by Cowie Brothers City Service Company as the truck supplies a service station with oil. Th... |
| Date: | 06 09 1938 |
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| Description: | A man stands atop a platform behind an International D-30 truck as he fills it with oil from a tank. The truck was outfitted with a 500-gallon 5-compartmen... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town, showing the shoreline of Lake Superior, ore docks, roads, houses, buildings, trees, and smokestacks. Text describing this photograph s... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Olsen's Mill (Wayne Feeds) on Hwy 49, just north of Hwy 21. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | "Jerry Adelmeyer picks up whey at Widmer Cheese Factory and transports it to the slurry tank on his farm." |
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