Details
Creator Robbins, Frank, b. 1846.
Title Drake Well, the first oil well [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 first commercial oil well drilled in 1859 by Edwin Drake near Titusville, Pa. The pioneer well instigated the speculative oil boom of the 1860s. Shows the abandoned, dilapidated derrick and engine house adorned with a small sign inscribed, "Drake." The derrick and engine house, in disrepair by 1876, were dismantled and reassembled for display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia.
Is part of Views of the Penna oil region. No. 16
Notes Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities.
Title, publisher's imprint, and brief description of the well and region printed on verso.
Buff 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 Drake, Edwin L. (Edwin Laurentine), 1819-1880,
Oil wells -- Pennsylvania -- Titusville.
Oil well drilling rigs -- Pennsylvania -- Titusville.
Petroleum industry -- Pennsylvania -- Titusville.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.59]
Accession number P.9276.59