EL Drake,Peter Wilson,1st well ever drilled for petroleum oil in US,Oil Creek,PA

Title: 'The original Drake oil well in 1861'
Date Created/Published: 1861 Aug.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Summary: E.L. Drake & Peter Wilson in foreground, and James Smith, Wm. Smith, Jr., & Elbridge Lock in background, before 'the 1st well ever drilled for petroleum oil in the U.S.' located on the east bank of Oil Creek, one mile below Titusville, Pa.
Notes:
Repr. of photo taken in Aug. 1861 by John A. Mather.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Bookmark /2007678590/
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