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3" Cannon

Description: Photograph of a 3" Cannon used to shoot oil tanks when they caught fire. The oil drained into a dyke surrounding the tank and prevented the tank from boiling over.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

40,000 Ft. Gas Well

Description: Photograph of a 40,000 Ft. Gas Well blowing natural gas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Boilers

Description: Photograph of a battery of boilers used to quench the gas fire.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burning Oil Tanks

Description: Photograph of burning oil tanks, Prairie Oil and Gas Company, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Burnt Buildings

Description: Photograph of burnt buildings in Drumright, OK, after a fire.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cimarron River

Description: Photograph of the Cimarron River near Oilton, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cushing Oil Field

Description: Photograph of a Rumley Oil Pull, an oil burning tractor used to haul oil field supplies from Cushing to the Drumright Oil Field, in the Cushing Oil Field, Cushing, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drumright

Description: Photograph of main street, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drumright, OK

Description: Photograph of people "hunting for lost treasures the morning after," Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Drumright State Bank

Description: Photograph of Drumright State Bank, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Explosion

Description: Photograph of a car wrecked by nitroglycerin after an explosion near Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Flow Tanks

Description: Photograph of flow tanks on the Cimarron River bed near Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gunsburg and Foreman, No. 4

Description: Photograph of Gunsburg and Foreman, No. 4, one of the big rigs near Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gusher in Cushing Oil Field

Description: Photograph of a gusher in the Cushing Oil Field, after it was shot with 100 to 200 quarts of nitroglycerin, Cushing, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gusher in Cushing Oil Field

Description: Photograph of a gusher in the Cushing Oil Field, probably blowing after a nitroglycerin shot, Cushing, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Horse Team

Description: Photograph of a horse team hauling a piece of heavy oil field equipment in the Drumright Oil Field, Drumright, OK, with the caption, "This is the way all the equipment and supplies of all kinds were hauled from Cushing to the Drumright Oil Field until the Railway came in 1914." Photo by Oscar Drum, Bartlesville, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: Drums, Oscar
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Mary Sudik Well Oil Well

Description: Photograph of the Mary Sudik oil well in Oklahoma City.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Morrow Hotel Fire

Description: Photograph of the Morrow Hotel Fire, Drumright, OK. Photo by Electric Studio, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: Electric Studio
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oil Ice-berg

Description: Photograph of a Christmas tree shaped ice-berg in the oil field, made from oily salt water frozen over a leaky well.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oil Loading Rack

Description: Photograph of an oil loading rack, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma City Oil Field

Description: Photograph of a post card of the Oklahoma City Oil Field drilling rigs, at night, Oklahoma City, OK. Printed by MacArthur Photo Finishers, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Prairie Oil Company Pump Station

Description: Photograph of the Prairie Oil Company Pump Station north of Drumright, OK, that pumped oil to the Chicago, IL, area.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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