Oil Well Supply Co Oswego, New York, 1909 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Library of Congress record: Oil Well Supply Co., Oswego, N.Y.
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Oil Well Supply Co Oswego, New York, 1909
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Oswego, New York, in 1909 was a Lake Ontario port city at the mouth of the Oswego River, where grain elevators, flour mills, and rail yards tied the lake trade to the Erie Canal system. The Oil Well Supply Company's works, shown in this 1909 panoramic photograph, reflect how far the petroleum economy reached beyond the oil fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Drilling tools, pipe, and pumping equipment made by firms like this one were shipped by rail and water to producing regions across the country. For Oswego residents, the factory district along the river was part of a working city that also included a state normal school and the old Fort Ontario on the lakeshore. Few details of the company's Oswego operations survive in common accounts, so the picture is best read as a record of an industrial waterfront in a busy decade.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,645 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Oil Well Supply Co., Oswego, N.Y. |
| Reference | NY 1909 Oil Well Supply Co Oswego |
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