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 inters...
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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.
