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The First Oil Well
Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: The First Oil Well
Additional Description: Reproduction, copyrighted in 1890, of a retouched photograph showing Edwin L. Drake, to the right, and the Drake Well in the background, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first commercial well was drilled in 1859 to find oil.
Submitted: October 18, 2020, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p544597
File Size: 0.606 Megabytes

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