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A group of aproximately twenty workers pose in front of a shed and several oil derricks.
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A group of aproximately twenty workers pose in front of a shed and several oil derricks.

Credit: John A. Mather Collection/ Courtesy the Drake Well Museum, PHMC Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums

"Boomers" found jobs and opportunities for investment in the new oil fields of Pennsylvania. This 1864 photograph documents the workers of the Herr Farm oil lease site.

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