Photographs of Bartlesville, Indian Territory

Description

Title: Photographs of Bartlesville, Indian Territory
Creator: Drum "Railroad Photo Car"
Published / Created: ca. 1900.
Abstract: Three panoramic photographs of Bartlesville, Indian Territory, depicting Bartlesville looking Southeast, with railroad lines in the foreground, town buildings in the distance, with oil derricks to the right; looking Southwest, with oil derricks interspersed with buildings; and the Weber Pool, depicting an oil field with derricks and oil tanks
Description: Bartlesville was incorporated in 1897, the same year the first commercial oil well in Oklahoma was tapped there. An oil boom followed, and in 1917 the Phillips Petroleum Company was founded in Bartlesville.
Photographs captioned in white on photographs.
Photographs signed "Drum." Rest of name taken from Carl Mautz's Checklist of Western Photographers.
Provenance: Purchased from Ronald Rayman on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1998.
Extent: 3 photographic prints : 9 x 30.6 on mounts 14 x 35.5 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Panoramas
Panoramic photographs
Photographic prints
Material: b & w ;
Subject (Geographic): Oklahoma
Bartlesville
Bartlesville (Okla.)
Subject (Topic): Oil fields
Oil wells
Subjects: Oil fields > Oklahoma > Bartlesville > Pictorial works
Oil wells > Oklahoma > Pictorial works
Bartlesville (Okla.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Drum ["Railroad Photo Car"], Photographs of Bartlesville, I.T. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.