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Sketches in Crude-oil

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Oil-Wells in India 6

View in Oil City, Pa., after the flood, March 17, 1867 26

Baku, Russia and Bakany Views 14

Notable Wells on Oil Creek in 1861-2-3 42

Map of Venango County 59

Early Operators on Oil Creek 60

Group Picture—Maj. W. T. Baum, Jacob Sheasley, Henry F. James, James Evans, W. R. Crawford, Daniel Grimm, Col. Jas. P. Hoover 82

Miller & Sibley’s Prospect Hill Stock Farm, Franklin, Pa. 115

Group Picture—John Vanausdall, G. K. Anderson, Wm. Phillips, F. S. Tarbell, F. W. Andrews, Capt. Wm. Hasson, Henry R. Rouse, John P. Zane. D. W. Kenney’s Allemagoozelum City Well No. 2 116

Petroleum Centre, 1894 131

Wells on Benninghoff Run, Venango Co., Pa., in 1866 156

General View of Pithole in August, 1895 172

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Parker Oil Exchange in 1874 190

Up the Allegheny River 212

Views at St. Petersburg, Edenburg and Other Places 232

Karns City, Greece City, Petrolia, 1873; Group of Hascal L. Taylor, Marcus Brownson and John Satterfield 258

Group Picture—Richard Jennings, S. D. Karns, George Nesbit and George Dimick 261

Armstrong Well 281

Views on the Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, in 1863-6. Refinery and Oil-Wells at Russia and Baku 292

Pond Freshet at Oil City, March, ’63 310

A Cluster of Pioneer Editors 344

Group Picture—F. F. Murray, Frank W. Truesdell, R. W. Criswell, James M. Place and George E. Mapes 366

Group Picture—Col. J. K. Haffey, D. A. Dennison, Thomas A. Kern and Charles F. Persons 371

Well Flowing Oil After Torpedoing 382

Standard Building, 26 Broadway, N.Y. 408

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