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Sketches in Crude-oil / Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe

Chapter 5: ILLUSTRATIONS.
By John J. McLaurin
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The author traces petroleum from ancient mentions and natural seeps through nineteenth-century experiments and the first drilled commercial wells, presenting anecdotal episodes, technical innovations, and the boom-and-bust life of oil towns. Drawing on personal observation and portraits, the work moves regionally through early American surface springs and emerging drilling districts, describes laboratory and field advances that improved extraction and refining, and recounts legal, financial, and human consequences of rapid industry growth. Emphasis is placed on vivid incidents and biographical sketches rather than exhaustive scientific or economic analysis.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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