“Binninghoff sic Run”

by oil

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Vintage albumen print, rounded at top corners, mounted on card, captioned in pen beneath image. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded, some surface abrasion, mount soiled. Item #250221 Vintage albumen print showing the oil derricks and pump house of Benninghoff Run, an important early oil field in Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley. The site’s Ocean Well, dug in 1865, was the first to prove that oil could be extracted from hilly

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