“Petroleum Centre”

by oil

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Vintage albumen print, rounded at top corners, mounted on card, captioned in pen beneath image. 1 vols. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded, some surface abrasion, mount soiled and worn. Item #250325 Vintage albumen print of Petroleum Centre, Pennsylvania, with Oil Creek in the foreground, with a few scattered derricks and the town proper on the far bank. Petroleum Centre sprang up in 1861 with the birth of the oil industry in western

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