02182nkm a2200409 a 4500 000147748 20230712142456.0 |hoboc 021119s1866 paunnn nen d Econ-569Ec000000on5 11 ppl PPL gihc Mather, John A. (John Aked), 1829-1915. 43197 Dennis Run Oil Co. Tidioute Penn[sylvania] [graphic] / Photographed by J.A. Mather, Titusville, PA. [Titusville, Pa.: John A. Mather, ca. 1866] 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.) Mather's stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania oil regions. 42 Yellow mount with square corners. Photographer's label pasted on verso. 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. 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. Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. Dennis Run Oil. Petroleum industry Pennsylvania Tidioute. lctgm Oil wells Pennsylvania Tidioute. lctgm Titusville Region (Pa.) History Pictorial works. Stereographs 1860-1870. gmgpc Albumen prints 1860-1870. gmgpc Imprint PA. Titusville. 1866. Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.2] P.9212.2 2002/11/19 ep 2003/01/22 ja Pr stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.2] Pr P.9212.2 LCPD stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.2] (CPomAG)80004214 140686 140686 000147748 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000147748 20060120 1812 000147748 MASTER 40 20070410 1645 000147748 20071018 1952 000147748 LINDAW 40 20120127 1537 ppl PA. Titusville. 1866. Imprint