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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8008]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a full structure oil rig, workers close up at bottom, some smoke coming from the rig area, and more)"
Date: February 21, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8014]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Derricks Shouldered each other aside in the bustle of development of the Oklahoma City north field, as shown in this shot on the north side of the City in 1939. the city field still ranks as the biggest producer the state has ever known."
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8007]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a dog sitting and a horse standing up close, an oil well behind each one, downtown Oklahoma City in the background, and more)"
Date: November 21, 1945
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8012]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Neither cold, ice, snow nor sleet is curbing production of crude oil in the southwest, in spite of what the alarmists in the fuel-short north and east (?) congress and the newspapers. Crude oil production has been maintained at record rates all (?) and will continue at high ratesthrough all of 1948. Photo shows and ice-coated pump unit (?) a well on N Kelly in the Oklahoma City field, which is representative of most of th… more
Date: February 5, 1948
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8015]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(nighttime photo with the oil rigs having their lights on, building bottom center, cars on the grounds, and more. Handwriting at the bottom is "Capitol Oil Field Oklahoma City")"
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Just as black clouds on the horizon warn of an approaching storm, so do those steaming mudhogs, a dozen blocks away, warn of an approaching tide of derricks that threatens to engulf these attractive west side homes. C. J. Jaho, staff photographer, capture this ominous view Wednesday from the 500 block Hill street, just west of Walker avenue. The newest extension plea of the oil interests, to be voted on March 24, would br… more
Date: February 26, 1936
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7999]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo with a car parked close up, a chiken beside it, two oil wells, a storage tank, small shacks around, downtown Oklahoma City in the background, and more)"
Date: April 6, 1937
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8002]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(night-time photo with the oil rigs with their lights, gas station amd other buildings across the bottom, road across the bottom, and more. Fronside handwriting: "Land of Liquid Gold Okla City Oil Field.")"
Date: 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8006]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Exitment had reached a fever pitch as everyone waited. A photographer, one of a group of newsmen on 24-hour-a-day watch at the scene , suggested to his boss that it was time to give up: "Nothing is going to happen out there." For five days. Oil drillers had "fished" more than a mile bellow ground for drilling tools lost in the hole. Their progress was slowed by gas bubbles rising in the test. The well had already establ… more
Date: November 29, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Kerr-McGee Company Drilling Two Projects Within Shout of Main and Broadway The oil drills are spinning within shouting distance of Main and Broadway again. For the first time in nearly six years wells are being drilled right on the line of the downtown zone where the derricks are banned. Kerr-McGee Oil Industries have two wells making hole at the present time up against the east line of the Santa Fe railway righ… more
Date: 1951
Creator: Orris, John Adams
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8017]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This landscape scene caught the photographer's eye in the 1200 block NE 63. The oil wells in the background blend with the worker busy in the fields at a city nursery firm. The workman is Kenneth Harris and he is planning "little liner," (baby trees). In the background is Northeast highschool."
Date: March 28, 1949
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8011]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahomans seldom take note of the oilfields. Only drilling operations atract much attention. But day in, day out, hundreds of oilmen are at work in the fields. They struggle to keep the wells in shape. Routine work replacing parts or cleaning welss has a spectacular look. Four of six photographs here were made during the same operation. In a simple, one-hour procedure, the four-man crew was replacing a pump. Whi… more
Date: December 31, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8004]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fisheye lens shot upward gives striking pattern if steel, clouds and sity skyline. Although hundreds of derricks remain in the Oklahoma City area, most have outlasted their usefulness and have become hazards."
Date: April 12, 1976
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8003]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A grimy slush pit filled with oil residue nirrors derricks and oil storage tanks in a typical scene in the southeastern section of Oklahoma City."
Date: December 31, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8013]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Recent Oklahoma City land annexations Friday caused two oil drilling firms to announce they would seek city drilling permits for two locations already under way in Cleveland County. Under city ordinances, oil wells may not be drilled outside the well defined U - 7 zone. Both of the locations in question are about 1 1/2 miles south of the Oklahoma County line in recently annexed areas. The Lone Star No. 2 Turner Wel… more
Date: 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0304]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City won a court round, but lost anyway, when an oil. company began drilling this well before the courts determined whether the work is legal."
Date: March 5, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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