[OIL INDUSTRY] Part 2

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Oil field with derricks, storage tanks, horse-drawn equipment - small town of clapboard stores, parked automobiles, people - oil field workers and drilling equipment - men place stake in ground - pedestrian traffic and horse-drawn vehicles - railroad station with spectators and passenger train - men standing and sitting on porch of store - oil storage tanks - oil refinery - workers inside refinery - refinery buildings and workers, Rand Oil Storage and Warehouse. Main pump- storage tanks - oil pipeline, refinery building - tank cars - worker checks equipment in laboratory - refinery buildings, Parraffine System Sweater buidlings. Oil derricks - workers dig trench for pipeline [laying standard pipeline, 8 inch, from El Dorado, Arkansas to Homer, Louisiana. Blacksmith shop with two men pounding metal on anvil - tractor - group of men read map outside store - workers add section of drill bit to drilling equipment - shoppers and workers in town, seated along curb, pedestrian traffic, men standing on street corner - family group - workers in oil rig. [1920]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects