Details
Title Farrel Farm [graphic].
Publisher United States
Publisher US. 1865
Date ca. 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View photographed during the Western Pennsylvania speculative oil boom of the 1860s. Shows the oil well and surrounding buildings of the farm purchased by James Farrel in 1859 near the banks of Oil Creek, Venango County, Pa. Wells on the farm struck oil in 1863.
Is part of American scenery. 2757
Notes Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title annotated on negative.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Farrel, James -- Homes and haunts.
Oil wells -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County.
Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County.
Geographic subject Titusville Region (Pa.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.9058.168]
Accession number P.9058.168