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[Photograph 2012.201.B1398.0086]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Forced to drill shallow wells for a water supply, operators in north end of the Oklahoma city field, turned to the latest type equipment. 75 horsepower Pomana turbine pump."
Date: 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0376]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oil Refuges-Mrs. G. K. Sutton, upper left, 1109 Northeast Seventeenth street was just pouring some lemonade for her husband and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McDonald Monday night when the black, greasy rain of oil descended."
Date: July 20, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8000]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a picture of just about everything in the oil business except a producing well. This is the Ponca City plant of the Continental Oil and Refining Co., one of the largest in the Midcontinent field. In the lower foreground is the general office building, and to the right is the baseball field symbolic of recreational facilities the company makes available to its emplyes. The white streak down the left hand side of t… more
Date: 1939
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8016]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(two photos taped together with neighborhood housing in foreground, a creek and bridge across the bottom, oil field in the background, and more)"
Date: March 9, 1936
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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