Creator |
Robbins, Frank, b. 1846. |
Title |
Refining oil [graphic]. |
Publisher |
Oil City, Pa.: Published by Frank Robbins |
Publisher |
PA. Oil City. 1870 |
Date |
[ca. 1875] |
Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.) |
Description |
View showing the stills of the Imperial Refining Company Works founded in Oil City in the 1860s by Jacob Vandergrift. Refinery
workers stand in front of the engine house and stills near a railroad platform. Oil tank cars and freight cars rest on the
railroad tracks in the foreground. The Standard Oil Company, owned by John D. Rockefeller, bought the company in 1874.
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Is part of |
Views of the Penna oil region. No. 53 |
Notes |
Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities. |
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Title, publisher's imprint, and brief description of the oil refining process printed on verso. |
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Buff mount with rounded corners. |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
Subject |
Imperial Refining Company. |
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Refineries -- Pennsylvania -- Oil City. |
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Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Oil City. |
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Petroleum workers -- Pennsylvania -- Oil City. |
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Railroad tank cars -- Pennsylvania -- Oil City. |
Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
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Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.62] |
Accession number |
P.9276.62 |