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Historical Images

  • A Torpedoed Well
  • Acme Oil Company Refinery
  • Acme Oil Refinery Ruins, General View, 1880
  • Acme Refinery Ruins, Titusville, 1880
  • Allegheny River at Oil City
  • Allemagoozelum Well, Cherrytree Run, 1869
  • American Oil Works Advertisement
  • Armstrong Well No 2, Thorn Creek 1884
  • Atlantic Gasoline, Oil Truck
  • Automobile Gasoline Truck with Horses
  • Barrel Wagons, Unknown Location
  • Boarding House at Pioneer
  • Bradford 1876
  • Bradford 1880
  • Bradford Baptist Church, Home of Jones Bradford Oil Company
  • Burn Rayolight Oil Truck
  • Burn Rayolight Oil Trucks with Horses
  • Central House Petroleum Center
  • Columbia Conduit Company Outwits Railroad
  • Captian Joseph T. Jones, 1880
  • Charles Pratt and Company Refinery, Brooklyn NY
  • Downer Oil Works, Corry
  • Drake Well in 1864
  • Early Drilling
  • Eclipse Refinery
  • Edwin Drake
  • Empire Well, Funk Farm
  • Esso Truck,
  • Fairview Pipe Line Co., Petrolia
  • Fee Well, Atkinson Farm, Shamburg
  • First Large Pumping Station near Pleasantville
  • First Tank Cars, Densmore Type
  • Funkville, 1867
  • Fisher Farm No. 38 Well, Bradford Oil Company
  • Funkville Site Today
  • Galena Refinery, Franklin, PA
  • George Bissell
  • George H. Bissell and Company Bank, Petroleum Center
  • Gib Morgan
  • Great Western Run Wells, Pioneer
  • Greggs Switch, 1865
  • Heisman Barrelworks, Titusville
  • H.H. Boughton Company, Pioneer
  • Homestead Well, Pithole
  • H.J. Crawford
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Iron Boiler Tank Car, 1880
  • J.T. Jones Juvenile Band, Bradford
  • Jacob J. Vandergrift
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Joseph Reid
  • Kier Advertisement
  • Loading Platform, Shaffer Farm
  • Main Office United Pipelines, Petrolia
  • Main Street and Center Street Bridge, Oil City
  • Main Street, Oil City, 1861
  • McClintockville, 1861
  • Monitor Refinery, GW McClintock Farm, 1864
  • Map of Funkville on Oil Creek, 1865
  • Morgan's Eddy, Below Oil City on Allegheny River
  • National Refining Company, 1880s, Titusville
  • No3 Acme Refinery, Titusville
  • Noble and Delamater Well, Farrel Farm
  • Oil Creek Rail Road, 1864, Oldest Known Photo of Railroad
  • OIL CITY Pond Freshet Disaster, May 1864
  • Oil Creek RR Locomotive near Rouseville
  • Oil Creek at Funkville
  • Oil Fleet at Oil City
  • Oilmen and Drilling Tools, Pleasantville
  • Oil Barges At Mouth of Oil Creek
  • Oil City Bridge Pond Freshet, May 1864
  • Oil City, Spectators Watch Pond Freshet, May 1864
  • Oil City, Venango Co., PA
  • Oil Creek, May 1864 Pond Freshet Pileup
  • Otto Cupler Company, T.M. Agnew
  • Patrick C. Boyle
  • Petroleum Center, 1864
  • Petrolia, Butler county
  • Philips and Woodford Wells, Tarr Farm
  • Philips Well, Thorn Creek, Butler County 1884
  • Pioneer and Railroad Bridge, 1865
  • Pioneer, 1865
  • Pioneer Run Wells, 1865
  • Pithole, Mule Wagon
  • Prather Street, Pithole
  • Pumping Station at Garfield, NY Pipeline
  • Pennzoil Company Truck
  • Red Hot near Shamburg
  • Rouseville, 1867
  • Rayo Lamp Light Advertisement
  • Samuel M. Kier
  • Samuel Justus
  • Shaffer Farm, Railyard with Oil Drilling Equipment
  • Shamburg, 1868
  • Shamburg, 1868
  • Sherman Well, Foster Farm
  • Sledging the Pipes for
  • Standard Oil Company Gas Pump
  • Steamboats, Mouth of Oil Creek, 1863
  • Tarport and Tuna Valley, Bradford 1880
  • Tarr Farm, 1865
  • Tidioute, 1864
  • Titusville and Tidioute Pipeline Company Tanks
  • Tarr Farm 1856, Eastside of Creek looking down from Phillips Well
  • Tarr Farm Today, Looking East
  • Tarr Farm Today, Looking Southeast
  • Underground Storage Tanks, Tarr Farm
  • US on Franzier well
  • Village of Tarr Farm in 1868
  • Vandergrift's Ferry, Above Oil Creek 1865
  • Village of Tarr Farm about 1868 (Heman James House Left of Center Midhigh)
  • Volunteer Hose Company, J.T. Jones Sisterville, WV
  • Washington Street Petroleum Center
  • William Porter Farm, Pleasantville
  • William Porter Farm, Pleasantville, 1872
  • Wooden Storage Tanks, Benninghoff Run
  • Zerolene Horse and Carriage

Image Credits:

  • David Waples
  • The PA Historical and Museum Commission's Drake Well Collection
  • The Neil McElwee Collection
  • The Venango Museum of Art, Science and Industry
  • Venango County Historical Society