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VIEW SOUTHWEST, EAST GABLE ELEVATIONS AND NORTH ELEVATIONS OF ENGINE HOUSE IN FOREGROUND AND ECCENTRIC HOUSE IN REAR NOTE ROD LINES IN FOREGROUND RIGHT. - Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA
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Nicely, John, creator
Title
VIEW SOUTHWEST, EAST GABLE ELEVATIONS AND NORTH ELEVATIONS OF ENGINE HOUSE IN FOREGROUND AND ECCENTRIC HOUSE IN REAR NOTE ROD LINES IN FOREGROUND RIGHT. - Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA
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Drake, Edwin; Golden Oil Company; Lilly Machine Works; Bessemer Company; W.C. Norris Company; West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, sponsor; Allegheny National Forest, sponsor; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Commission, sponsor; Marston, Christopher H, project manager; Elmer, Eric, field team project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter; Caplinger, Michael W, historian; Lapins, Arturs, delineator; Boxley, Paul, delineator; Daley, Scott, delineator; Hurst, Kara, delineator; McClung, Kevin, delineator; Nicely, John T, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Warren County; Donaldson
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,62-DONA.V,1-6
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were first developed here in the effort to recover the high-quality "Pennsylvania Grade" oil. One particularly important, and successful, technique perfected in Pennsylvania was the "central power" pumping of numerous low-production wells to economically recover small amounts of oil. This method of production flourished between ca. 1890 and ca. 1950, and today there are only scattered remains of the once common pumping technique. The Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease is an excellent example of a smaller, centrally powered pumping operation.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-440
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3555.photos.360916p
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