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Men inspect the ruins of the Bridgeport Station after a tornado.

85. Bridgeport Station after Tornado

IDNO:
000743
Title:
Bridgeport Station after Tornado
Date:
1944
Description:
Men inspect the ruins of the Bridgeport Station after a tornado.
Men standing at the bottom of a wooden derrick. Keen Wolf. Bull Bayou.

86. Setting Up Drill No. 137

IDNO:
000744
Title:
Setting Up Drill No. 137
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Men standing at the bottom of a wooden derrick. Keen Wolf. Bull Bayou.
Row of horizontal engines at Jones Station.

87. Horizontal Engines at Jones Station

IDNO:
000745
Title:
Horizontal Engines at Jones Station
Date:
undated
Description:
Row of horizontal engines at Jones Station.

88. Work Crew Laying Oil Pipeline Across a River

IDNO:
000746
Title:
Work Crew Laying Oil Pipeline Across a River
Date:
undated
Activities in the oil field near Shinnston, Adamsville area. Horses, wagons, and man-power moved all the equipment to the drilling site. Sistersville and Shinnston came into the oil boom about the same time. E.K. Towles of Shinnston, W. Va.

89. Shinnston Area Oil Field

IDNO:
000747
Title:
Shinnston Area Oil Field
Date:
1900
Description:
Activities in the oil field near Shinnston, Adamsville area. Horses, wagons, and man-power moved all the equipment to the drilling site. Sistersville and Shinnston came into the oil boom about the same time. E.K. Towles of Shinnston, W. Va.
Teams of horses hauling pipe through the mud.

90. Teaming in Oil Field No. 2, Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:
000748
Title:
Teaming in Oil Field No. 2, Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Teams of horses hauling pipe through the mud.
Large amounts of oil shooting out of a derrick after being shot with nitroglycerin.

91. Result of Agnew's Shots, Sistersville, Tyler County, W. Va.

IDNO:
000749
Title:
Result of Agnew's Shots, Sistersville, Tyler County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Large amounts of oil shooting out of a derrick after being shot with nitroglycerin.

92. Wooden Oil Derricks in a West Virginia Oil Field

IDNO:
000750
Title:
Wooden Oil Derricks in a West Virginia Oil Field
Date:
undated
Men inspect the ruins of the Bridgeport Station after a tornado.

93. Bridgeport Station after Tornado

IDNO:
000751
Title:
Bridgeport Station after Tornado
Date:
1944
Description:
Men inspect the ruins of the Bridgeport Station after a tornado.
Wooden Oil Derrick

94. Dry Hole

IDNO:
000752
Title:
Dry Hole
Date:
1860
Description:
Wooden Oil Derrick
A flowing oil well, showing the effect of an eighty-quart shot of nitro-glycerine. Harrison County.

95. Oil Well Gusher after Shot of Nitro-Glycerine

IDNO:
000753
Title:
Oil Well Gusher after Shot of Nitro-Glycerine
Date:
undated
Description:
A flowing oil well, showing the effect of an eighty-quart shot of nitro-glycerine. Harrison County.
James Thompson, the Veteran Shooter, placing a twenty-quart nitro-glycerine shell. Harrison County Oil Fields.

96. Placing a Twenty Quart Nitro-Glycerine Shell.

IDNO:
000754
Title:
Placing a Twenty Quart Nitro-Glycerine Shell.
Date:
ca. 1901
Description:
James Thompson, the Veteran Shooter, placing a twenty-quart nitro-glycerine shell. Harrison County Oil Fields.