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[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0331]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fireman were much in evidence Friday night around the No. 1 McMannis of the Big Chief Drilling Co., in the 100 block Madison avenue, after the well went wild shot oil and gasoline around the state capitol."
Date: October 24, 1941
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Three Sands: Experiences in an Early Oil Field

Description: Article describes the oil industry boom of the 1920s in the small town of Three Sands, including the layout of Three Sands Oil Field and the surrounding town. B. F. Conaghan provides first-hand insights based off of his own experience working in the oil industry at this time.
Date: Spring 1980
Creator: Conaghan, B. F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma City Oil Field

Description: Photograph of an oil field near downtown Oklahoma City. Date unknown. Several oil derricks are identified in the photo. They all are associated with H.I. Grimes, Grimes-Abliene Company, or Grison Oil Company. The building in the foreground of the photo is the Carroll, Brough & Robinson wholesale grocery company. The company building was located at 1 East Main Street, Oklahoma City.
Date: unknown
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.B0108.0270]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Members of the Oklahoma steering committee on oil field names of the Mid, Continent Oil and Gas association Will go into session at the Tulsa club Thursday to name and define oil areas, the first meeting after re-election of officers and setting up of new subcommittee."
Date: 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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