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by the Owners of Steam Boilers and Engines in the Oil Regions during 1870, Ten Thousand Dollars. By Burning Fuel to make Steam… by James H. Dann

$275 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

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Rouseville, Venango County, PA, 1870 . Illustrated broadside, 11” x 7.5”. One word inscribed on verso. CONDITION: Good, staining, chipping at margins, partial separation at middle old folds, one puncture at middle. A broadside issued during the Pennsylvania oil rush by a Rouseville, Pennsylvania inventor advertising a flue scraper and wiper designed to address an inefficiency in boiler used in the oil fields. This broadside

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