View of oil field, Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1908 – Antique Photo Print
(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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A window into the past: View of oil field, Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1908, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of oil field, Mingo Junction, Ohio
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View of oil field, Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1908
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Mingo Junction, a river town in Jefferson County on the Ohio River a short distance below Steubenville, was in 1908 a place where heavy industry and extractive work sat side by side. Steel and iron mills along the river drew a large share of the local workforce, and the rail lines running through the valley carried coal, ore, and finished goods out of the district. Oil and gas drilling had been part of the eastern Ohio landscape since the late nineteenth century, and the derricks and storage tanks in a view like this one would have been a familiar sight to residents, who depended on both the wells and the mills for wages. The town was growing with the mills, and its streets and neighborhoods were shaped by the shift schedules and the needs of its immigrant and working families.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | r.w. johnston studios, williams engineering co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,221 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of oil field, Mingo Junction, Ohio |
| Reference | OH 1908 View of oil field, Mingo Junction |
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