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- Title
- Wells on Clarion River
- Description
- View showing derricks on the bank of the Clarion County river. Also shows a man on a dirt path lined by brush and trees near the derricks., Buff mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on mount: Mrs. S.M. Fox., List of over one-hundred views published by photographer printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.58]
- Title
- Dennis Run Oil Co. Tidioute Penn[sylvania]
- 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., 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., 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.
- Creator
- Mather, John A. (John Aked), 1829-1915
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.2]
- Title
- Farrel Farm
- Description
- View photographed during the Western Pennsylvania speculative oil boom of the 1860s. Shows the oil well and surrounding buildings of the farm purchased by James Farrel in 1859 near the banks of Oil Creek, Venango County, Pa. Wells on the farm struck oil in 1863., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.9058.168]
- Title
- Noble Well and ferry
- 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., 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.
- Creator
- Union View Co.
- Date
- ca. 1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Industry [P.9292.2]
- Title
- Pipe line, and rail road war. Transferring oil across rail road
- Description
- View showing two men and a horse-drawn tank wagon transporting oil between Millerstown and Pittsburgh stopped in front of a passing West Penn Rail Road locomotive. The tank wagon rests on a platform leading to railroad tracks near a sign inscribed, "Look out for the locomotive." Another tank wagon turns at a fork in the road in the distance. Also includes a residence in the background. Clothes drying on a clothesline in the backyard of the residence are visible. Oil tank wagons were used following the continual destruction of pipe lines by Pennsylvania Railroad Company workers., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Brief history of the conflicts caused by the transport of oil from the fields to storage tanks printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.60]
- Title
- West side of Triumph Hill, near Tidioute, Pa
- Description
- View showing the Venango County region with the highest concentration of productive oil wells in Pennsylvania. The Triumph Hill oil belt, originally developed in 1867, contained over 150 wells. In the foreground, a woman and young girl sit on chairs near a wagon and wooden building on the main road to the oil field. In the background, several closely clustered oil derricks are visible., Title, publisher's imprint, and brief description of the site printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.61]
- Title
- Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
- Description
- Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river. Probably taken 1921 [1138, 1213]; 1922 [1861]; 1924 [4602-4609]; 1926 [5464-5922]., Negative numbers: 1138, 1213, 1861, 4586, 4602-4609, 5464, 5922., 4602, 4603, 4605, 4606 not digitized; negatives are damaged and cannot be scanned., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1921-1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1138; P.8990.1213; P.8990.1861; P.8990.4586; P.8990.4602-4609; P.8990.5464; P.8990.5922]
- Title
- Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
- Description
- Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river., Negative numbers: 6110, 6111, 6112, 6113, 6177, 6178, 6180, 6181, 6182, 6183.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6110-6113; P.8990.6177; P.8990.6178; P.8990.6180-6183]
- Title
- Stevenson farm O[il] Creek Penn[sylvania]
- Description
- View photographed during the Pennsylvania oil speculation boom of the 1860s showing a derrick, several oil tanks, and a shack on the farm of John Stevenson in Venango County. A man stands near a tree stump in the foreground. Stevenson farm was sold in 1865 and incorporated into the Ocean Oil Company., Yellow mount with square corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., 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.
- Creator
- Mather, John A. (John Aked), 1829-1915
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Mather -Industry [P.9212.1]
- Title
- Boyd, Stevenson farm Oil Creek Penn[sylvania]
- Description
- View photographed during the Pennsylvania oil speculation boom of the 1860s showing the James Boyd and John Stevenson farms in the Oil Creek Valley. Includes an oil derrick, a bridge over Oil Creek, several wooden structures, and the Oil Exchange Hotel. Boyd Farm served as a hub for the Oil Creek Railroad, consequently promoting the development of the speculator town, Bennenhoff City., Yellow mount with square corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., 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.
- Creator
- Mather, John A. (John Aked), 1829-1915
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Mather - Industry [P.9212.3]
- Title
- Office of Mandell? & Crittenden. Petroleum Center. Behind the derrick
- Description
- View showing an office of oil brokers and shippers in Petroleum Center during the Western Pennsylvania oil boom of the 1860s. A group of men and women sit on the porch of the office near the derrick. A horse-drawn wagon transporting several men rests nearby. In the background, the office of the Central Petroleum Company (established in 1860) is visible., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Tile from manuscript note on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.9168.10]
- Title
- Gas well, Butler Co., Pa
- Description
- View showing a gas well in a wooded area in Butler County. Laborers stand between the enclosed derrick and gas tanks. Butler County contained the most productive gas fields in the United States in the late 19th century., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Brief description of the harvesting and use of natural gas printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.63]
- Title
- Fishing with pole tools in a well 1,500 feet deep
- Description
- Shows fishing agent James Robinson of Patterson, Mitchell & Co. (Oil City) standing near an oil derrick near tools of his trade, including a bull wheel and spud. Patterson stands on several pipes in front of three other laborers at the base of the derrick. Another laborer stands on an upper plank within the derrick., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Description of "fishing", i.e., the removal of drilling tools immobolized in the wells, printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.64]
- Title
- Drake Well, the first oil well
- 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., Title, publisher's imprint, and brief description of the well and region printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.59]
- Title
- Refining oil
- 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., Title, publisher's imprint, and brief description of the oil refining process printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.62]
- Title
- Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad Album
- Description
- Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route.
- Date
- 1874