Empire Refineries, Inc., pipe storage, 1919

nitrate negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NITRATE NEGATIVES
Unknown Photographer
USA, OK
December 1919
nitrate negative
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 nitrate negative photographed possibly by an unidentified photographer most likely in Oklahoma in December of 1919. Image is an elevated view looking over acres and acres of pipes stacked in high piles on an oil field with oil rigs in the distant background. Image is part of a series of photographs taken for or about Empire Refineries, Inc. owner of oil fields, refineries and railroad cars for oil transportation. Empire Refineries, Inc. also had places in Independence, Kansas and Ponca, Okmulgee, Oklahoma City and Cushing, Oklahoma and was a subsidiary of Cities Service Company. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "9972 / Box 779". Original owners number from surface side of negative: "68-5008". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.9972

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider