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Office of Mandell? & Crittenden. Petroleum Center. Behind the derrick [graphic].
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Title
Office of Mandell? & Crittenden. Petroleum Center. Behind the derrick [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 showing an office of oil brokers and shippers in Petroleum Center during the Western Pennsylvania oil boom of the 1860s. A group of men and women sit on the porch of the office near the derrick. A horse-drawn wagon transporting several men rests nearby. In the background, the office of the Central Petroleum Company (established in 1860) is visible.
Notes
Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Tile from manuscript note on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Central Petroleum Company.
Oil wells -- Pennsylvania -- Petroleum Center.
Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Petroleum Center.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Petroleum Center.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.9168.10]
Accession number
P.9168.10
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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