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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2020
Caption: Black Gold Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) First oil drilling rig south of Billings, circa 1929.; (bottom center L) This 1921 booster publication describes the beginning of the region's oil and gas boom.; (bottom center R)Yale Oil Corporation refinery, on the southeast side of downtown Billings, 1930s.; (bottom right) Litening Gas, a product of the local Yale Oil refinery, was sold in the region from the late 1920s through early 1940s.; (upper right) Modern day view of the Philips 66 Refinery.
Submitted: March 13, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p572690
File Size: 3.266 Megabytes

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