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Historical Images

  • Early Drilling
  • Eclipse Refinery
  • Edwin Drake
  • Galena Refinery, Franklin, PA
  • George Bissell
  • Gib Morgan
  • H.J. Crawford
  • Ida Tarbell
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Joseph Reid
  • 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