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Group of people watching a gusher.

1. Oil Well Gushing Oil

IDNO:: 000704
Title:: Oil Well Gushing Oil
Date:: undated
Description:: Group of people watching a gusher.

Five derricks and rigs. Oil gushing from well in foreground.

2. Shooting Wells with Nitroglycerin

IDNO:: 000715
Title:: Shooting Wells with Nitroglycerin
Date:: undated
Description:: Five derricks and rigs. Oil gushing from well in foreground.

Oil gushes from well at Shinnston.

3. Second Shooting at H. H. Swiger Well No. 1, B. A. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 000725
Title:: Second Shooting at H. H. Swiger Well No. 1, B. A. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1910
Description:: Oil gushes from well at Shinnston.

Large amounts of oil shooting out of a derrick after being shot with nitroglycerin.

4. 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.

A flowing oil well, showing the effect of an eighty-quart shot of nitro-glycerine. Harrison County.

5. 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.