[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8033]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "With a reverberating roar and a clatter of stones, Sinclair-Prairie No. 1 Holmes well on south end of the Moore field, put on a prize performance Tuesday morning for a gusher party from Oklahoma City's Pageant of Petroleum Progress. Conservative estimates gave the well a potential 30,000 barrels a day much of which was pouring over the crown block when Jerry Allred, Times staff photographer, made the above picture."
Date:
December 1, 1936
Creator:
Allred, G. R.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society