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1. Hastings Station

2. Oil Derrick and Work Shed

3. Oil Pump Station

Large Building.

4. Oil Company Building

Two Buildings and a tower enclosed in a fenced area.

5. Oil Pump Station

6. Jones' Station and Other Oil Company Buildings

Team of horses and a wagon.

7. Team of Horses Used for Hauling Oil Field Supplies

8. Team of Horses Hauling Oil Supplies

9. Team of Horses Hauling Oil Drilling Supplies

Barge carrying oil storage tanks.  Man standing in between the tanks.

10. Oil Transport Barge

11. Trucks Transporting Oil Pipes in Harrison County, W. Va.

12. Oil Derrick and Adjoining Buildings

Group of people watching a gusher.

13. Oil Well Gushing Oil

A hoist mechanism for a shaft coal mine next to several buildings at a mine in an unknown location, likely in West Virginia.

14. Hoist Mechanism for a Shaft Coal Mine

15. Scenic View of an Oil Derrick on a Hillside

16. Scenic View of an Oil Derrick on a Hillside.

Four derricks with their adjoining oil company buildings.

17. Oil Derricks

18. Wind Damaged Oil Rig

Men standing on top of an oil tank

19. Oil Workers Examining an Old Wooden Oil Storage Tank

Man working with a piece of oil machinery.

20. Oil Crewman at Work on Pump

Row of oil engines.

21. Horizontal Engines with Big Fly Wheels

'Mud was a great enemy.'

22. Teamsters Hauling Oil Equipment Down a Muddy Road

Drawing of three men working with oil equipment.

23. Oil Men at Work

Sketch of two men holding a rope that is part of oil machinery.

24. Drillin' for Black Gold

25. Teamsters Hauling Oil Equipment Down a Muddy Road

Top photograph, men making bend in pipeline.  Bottom photograph, 'The Hope Navy' transporting oil tanks.

26. Making Fire Bends and 'The Hope Navy'

Line of horizontal engines.

27. Horizontal Engines with Big Fly Wheels

Line of horizontal engines with big fly wheels.

28. Horizontal Engines with Big Fly Wheels

Men standing at the bottom of a wooden derrick.  Keen Wolf.  Bull Bayou.

29. Setting Up Drill No. 137

Row of horizontal engines at Jones Station.

30. Horizontal Engines at Jones Station

31. Work Crew Laying Oil Pipeline Across a River

32. Wooden Oil Derricks in a West Virginia Oil Field

Wooden Oil Derrick

33. Dry Hole

Men working on oil pipe.

34. Making Fire Bends

Two Men Standing in between three oil storage containers.

35. Oil Men Posing by Storage Tanks

Men standing beside a halftrack carrying oil equipment.

36. H. N. C. Company Oil Equipment TransportationTruck

The late Fred Smith sitting at a desk.

37. Smith, Fred

Title page and copyright page of 'The Oil Well Driller' by Charles Whiteshot, Mannington, W. Va.  Cover displays images of Colonel Edwin L. Drake, Modern Dilling Well, Dipping Oil with Blankets, Digging Conductor Hole, and Drilling with Spring Pole or Kick Down.

38. Title Page of the Book 'The Oil Well Driller', by Charles Whiteshot

39. Oil Worker and His Team of Horses

40. Oil Men and Pose with Visitors in a Horse Drawn Wagon

41. Title Page of The Oil Well Driller, by Charles Whiteshot, 1905

Large group photo of the South Penn Men, Wileville District.

42. South Penn Men Wileville District

43. Oil Pump Station

Hastings Station with men standing outside the building.

44. Hastings Station

Storage tank and other buildings.

45. Experimental Oil and Gas Plant

Three men posed in an unidentified Oil and Gas Company office. Decorative gas stove in foreground.

46. Oil Company Office Workers

Storage tank and other buildings.

47. Oil and Gas Facilities at an Experimental Plant

48. A.W. Hartley Well no. 2 S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

49. T.B. Martin Well no.4, S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

50. Mrs. George Miller, Well no.1, Carnegie Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

51. W. G. Nixon Well no.1, H.S. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

52. Charles Hartley Well no. 1, Fairmont Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

53. Boiler House and Tank to Hartley Heirs' Well no. 2, B.A. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

Well shooting oil in Shinnston, W. Va.

54. Nimshi Nuzum Well no.1 Shooting, Miller Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

55. Howard Nuzum Well no. 1, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

Hartley Heirs' well shooting Oil in Shinnston, W.Va.

56. Shooting, Hartley Heirs' Well no.3, B.R. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

57. Hartley Heirs' Wells, B.R. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

58. Nimshi Nuzum Well no.4, Miller Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

59. U.B. Ogden Well no.2, S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

60. H.B. Pigott Well no.1, H.G. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

61. Hartley Heirs' Well no.3, B.A. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

62. B.S. Humphrey Well no.1, S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

63. Almira Rector Well no.1, S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

64. Almira Rector Well no.3, S.P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

65. Arthur Janes Well no.1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

66. Almira Rector Well no.4, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va

67. Almira Rector Well no.5, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

68. J.E. Janes Well no.2, Fisher Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

69. J. E. Janes Well no.2, S.P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

70. E .F. Richardson Well no.1, Phila. Co., Worthington, W. Va.

71. Changing Tower, S. A. Janes Well no.1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

72. Interior, J. E. Janes Well no.5, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

73. Casing, E. F. Richardson Well no.1, Phila. Co., Worthington, W. Va.

74. Alice A. Shinn Well no.1, Phila. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

75. Mary A. Janes Well no.1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

76. Elen Shinn Well no. 2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

77. Nay Well no.2, Shinnston, W. Va.

78. S. E. Janes Well no.1, S. P. Co. Interior, Shinnston, W. Va.

79. S. E. Janes Well no.1, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

80. Nay Well no.3, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

81. Interior, S. E. Janes no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

82. John Kennedy Well no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

83. H. A. Long Well no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

84. Nannie Lowe Well no.1, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

An unidentified man stands outsides the E.P.L. Lowe Station.

85. E. P. L. Lowe Station, Shinnston, W. Va.

86. Broken Rig on Nannie Lowe Well no.1, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

87. Nannie Lowe Well no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

88. Running Rig, Walter Lowe Well no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

89. W. L. Lowe Well no.2, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

90. T. H. Shores Well no.1, A. G. Co., Worthington, W. Va.

91. Interior, W. L. Lowe Well no.2, S. P. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

"Ruins of oil fields, Lowe Station."

92. Ruins of Oil Tanks at Lowe Station, Shinnston, W. Va.

93. Lucas Brothers Well no.1, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

94. Lucas Brothers Well no.2, Phila. Co., Shinnston, W. Va.

A well with oil flowing out from it in Shinnston, W. Va.

95. T. B. Martin Well no.1 Flowing, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.

Unidentified women and one child stand on two oil tanks in an oil field in Shinnston, W. Va.

96. Oil tanks to M. A. Whiteman Well no.1, S. P. Co. Shinnston, W. Va.