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Annotated Vernacular Album Documenting Oil Drilling in the American West
1921réf. 6148Various locations 1921. Very good. Twelve leaves with 106 photographs. Images a mix of 4.25 x 2.5 and 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth string tied. Black paper leaves photos glued down. Images captioned in ink throughout on the photo. Minor wear. An interesting photographic record of drilling for oil in Wyoming and Montana. The images which are all captioned in a useful fashion depict oil rigs and wells the drillers at work and occasionally the family's on whose land they are drilling. The album opens with images from Upton Wyoming. Upton is located in the northeast corner of the state near Deadwood South Dakota; its newspaper offices burned down in 1926 leaving few early records of the town. Images depict the boiler "to go on School Sec 16"; the Gose home and oil field as well as the Goses; as well as rigs identified as ready to move from one site to another. Several images later in the album depict an accident on the Gose field which decapitated Vernie Moody -- two images show an X on the spot where he died under the depicted wreckage. Other images show work at Osage Gillette and Salt Creek Wyoming including one of a gushing well at Salt Creek in 1921. Images of work at the Broadview Dome near Billings Montana indicate "no oil near here" and "their well my test." There are also some nice views of Main Street in Harding Montana and Gillette Wyoming. A brief but fascinating and insightful glimpse of the oil life in the northern plains. unknown
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