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Noble Well and ferry [graphic].
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Creator
Union View Co.
Title
Noble Well and ferry [graphic].
Publisher
Rochester, N.Y.: Union View Co., publishers
Publisher
NY. Rochester. 1876
Date
ca. 1876
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the well and ferry on James Farrel's farm, purchased in 1859, near the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania. The well, drilled by Orange Noble and George B. Delamater in 1860, struck oil in 1863. In the foreground, three men sit and stand in a ferry boat holding the tow rope near a man seated on a boulder in the creek. In the background, oil tanks line the riverbank.
Is part of
Oil regions of Pennsylvania. 2768
Notes
Negative annotated with title.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Oil wells -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County.
Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County.
Ferries -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Union View Company - Industry [P.9292.2]
Accession number
P.9292.2
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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