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Dennis Run Oil Co. Tidioute Penn[sylvania] [graphic] / Photographed by J.A. Mather, Titusville, PA.
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Creator
Mather, John A. (John Aked), 1829-1915.
Title
Dennis Run Oil Co. Tidioute Penn[sylvania] [graphic] / Photographed by J.A. Mather, Titusville, PA.
Publisher
[Titusville, Pa.: John A. Mather]
Publisher
PA. Titusville. 1866
Date
[ca. 1866]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View photographed during the Pennsylvania oil speculation boom of the 1860s showing derricks and a shack of the company near Dennis Run Creek. A man stands under one of the derricks. Uncut trees surround the well. Drilling began in Dennis Run in 1866.
Is part of
Mather's stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania oil regions. 42
Notes
Yellow mount with square corners.
Photographer's label pasted on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Mather, an English emigre, operated a photo gallery in Titusville from 1860 to 1915. His views of the oil region and its residents constitute the most comprehensive and reproduced record of the Pennsylvania petroleum industry in the mid nineteenth century.
Subject
Dennis Run Oil.
Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Tidioute.
Oil wells -- Pennsylvania -- Tidioute.
Geographic subject
Titusville Region (Pa.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.2]
Accession number
P.9212.2
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