Photographs of Bartlesville, Indian TerritoryDrum "Railroad Photo Car"ca. 1900.engThree 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 tanksBartlesville 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.