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E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico – Antique Print

E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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E.T. Williams oil well, Aztec, New Mexico

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The photograph shows the E.T. Williams oil well near Aztec, in northwestern New Mexico, a town in San Juan County. The record carries no date, so the picture can only be placed in the broader period of early oil and gas development in the Four Corners region, when operators drilled wildcat and small producing wells across the San Juan Basin. The image belongs to the Wittemann Collection at the Library of Congress, and its caption card is noted as unverified, so details about the well's owners and output should be checked against other sources. Its plain documentation of a single well makes it useful for studying how the field looked on the ground.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 1416. Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--BUSINESS; New Mexico; Oil Industry; Geogr.; Oil; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,073 × 3,000 px · prints to 7 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141246

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