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Oil storage tanks

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

A second battery of tanks nears completing on the L. Bowlegs lease Oct. 17, 1926 Seminole, OK., 1926 October 17

 Item — Box F-3A, item: 38
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original and copy prints of Henry Vernon Foster, first president of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company, with his family and business associates. Photographs of oil fields in Seminole, Oklahoma, and on the Osage reservation are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1926 October 17

Abandoned oil storage tanks., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-28, item: 406
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Amy Perkins and J. T. Perkins Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1145
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Osage and Kaw Indians, oil wells, farming scenes, schools, and scenes of Guymon and Tonkawa, Oklahoma Territory.

Dates: 1888-1904

An oil pump and storage tanks, note work shed to left of tanks., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-28, item: 403
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1677
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation operations, facilities, and employees. Included are scenes of the oil industry in California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming, and in Canada and Colombia, along with photographs of Bartlesville, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Tulsa, Seminole, Oklahoma City, Cushing, Ponca City, Dilworth, Pleasant Valley, Okmulgee, and Tallant, Oklahoma. There are also photographs of numerous Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation employees, and of Osage Indians, icluding Mo She To Moi, Black Dog, Bacon Rind, and Tse Mah Hah.

Dates: 1885-1978

Gas discharge pump and oil storage tanks., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-28, item: 405
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Magnolia Petroleum Company Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo M-2
Identifier: WHC-P-1536
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of oil field activities near Wirt, Oklahoma and Healdton, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1914-1924

Martha T. Swearingen Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1625
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Ramona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma state, including scenes of businesses, ranching, and oil storage construction. Martha T. Swearingen Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1904-1930

Oil storage tanks., undated

 Item — Box Photo W-28, item: 404
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: undated

Oil stored in an earthen tank in Wewoka, Indian Territory. 2 copies.  Negative 5x7., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-27, item: 153
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Seminole Indians, railroads, oil fields, schools, cotton gins, along with scenes of Weber City, Maud, Seminole, and Wewoka, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Oil tank, with derricks in background. Entitled: “The Prairie Oil and Gas, Oilton, Oklahoma, 1914.”, 1914

 Item — Box Photo M-31, Item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the towns of Moore and Snyder, Oklahoma Territory; Norman, Cement, Welch, Frederick, Stroud, Davidson, Vinita, Tipton, Peek, Ioland, Damon, and Elmore City, Oklahoma; and Coweta, Indian Territory. Included are scenes of businesses, the oil industry, railroads, parades, the University of Oklahoma, football, cotton marketing, and fire fighters.

Dates: 1914

Ora Lee Bowles Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Photo B-15
Identifier: WHC-P-1190
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of Cushing, Oklahoma and the oil industry in the Cushing area.

Dates: 1900-1925

Robert E. Cunningham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1666
Scope and Contents

Black and white glass plate negatives from original prints, original glass plate negatives and copy prints of settlement scenes of Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Perry and Lawton, Oklahoma Territory. Included are scenes of numerous other Oklahoma towns, the oil industry, businesses, railroads, farming, the military, and cowboys, along with studio portraits of Afro-Americans. The collection also contains photographs of the Land Run of 1893.

Dates: 1880-1930

Seminole Producer Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1627
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of the towns of Seminole and Bowlegs, Oklahoma during the oil boom of the 1920's. The collection includes scenes of the towns and oil production activities.

Dates: 1920-1936