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More imagesPublished by New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio 1923
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 350.00
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Album. Condition: Very good. This 8" x 6" album contains 37 b/w photographs, each measuring approximately 4.75" x 3". The crisp, well-composed snapshots are chronologically arranged and neatly glued to the album pages. Most have been captioned in white, but much of the writing has faded. In addition to the rugged workmen, equipm…ent, and environment of 1920s oil fields, these images show the men's Model T Ford, roadside tent camping, and a big campsite at Cleveland's Euclid Beach Park. Ohio became home to one of the first oil booms in the United States in the 1860s after a blacksmith, William Jeffrey, drilled a successful well in Trumbull County. The discovery of oil near Woodville in 1892 started a boom that lasted until 1905 by which time the area was mostly drained although drilling and pumping continued in a few of the area's fields. A historically valuable visual record of life as a traveling roughneck in the eastern oil fields. Rather scarce. At the time of this listing, no other Ohio oil field photograph albums are for sale in the trade. There are no auction records for similar materials listed at ABPC or the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows no similar albums held in institutional collections.
More imagesPublished by Colorado & California 1900
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 2,250.00
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Condition: Very good. This album contains approximately 110 photographs, most around 4" x 5". About half are glossy, sepia-toned albumen photographs. The other half are matte, black and white photographs, possibly silver, salt, and/or platinum prints as some have deep un-faded blacks with crisp greys, and others have a metallic…sheen at the image edge. Many of the sepia photographs were numbered and dated "1904" in the negative. The album has some wear and some of the photo borders have been mended. The photos are in nice shape; all have been slipped into album slots, and a few seem to have been glued in place. The extremely well-done images are impressive and include views of mountain terrain and rushing waters in the Rockies, dugout shelters, hunting party campsites, tent-living, campfire cooking, men with rifles, men on snowshoes, men with backpacks, men feeding baby mountain goats, horseback hunting, dead game (bear, deer, elk, an antelope loaded on a horse, a mounted big horn sheep's head), cleaning a bear skin, bundles of pelts, the summit of and views from Pike's Peak, the Garden of the Gods, naked men in a stream, Yosemite Valley, giant Sequoia Trees, log cabins, and more.
