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]
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]
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]
