Image Gallery: Striking Oil
Image Gallery - Striking Oil
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Oil Creek
Early Drilling sites were often randomly... |
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Pioneer Run Creek, Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1865.
Around 1865, the demand for land caused the... |
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The Mechanisms of Oil Wells
This photograph and diagram from the late... |
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Triumph Hill
A lack of knowledge about geology led oil... |
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Storage Tanks
The technology to store and transport oil... |
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Bennehoff run
Early oil fields had storage tanks and company... |
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Tank Fire
The switch to iron storage tanks did not... |
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Gusher
Although assumed to be a common occurrence,... |
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Pithole City's Beginnings
Pithole City was typical of many towns that... |
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Pithole Overview
A view of Pithole from First Street, looking... |
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Pithole's Demise
As the supply of oil began to dry up, Pithole's... |
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Ghost Town
By 1870 Pithole was all but deserted, and... |
