3" Cannon

Photograph of a 3" Cannon used to shoot oil tanks when they caught fire. The oil drained into a dyke surrounding the tank and prevented the tank from boiling over.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

40,000 Ft. Gas Well

Photograph of a 40,000 Ft. Gas Well blowing natural gas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

55,000 Barrel Tank

Photograph of a 55,000 barrel tank struck by lightning and on fire, c.1916.
Date: 1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Boilers

Photograph of a battery of boilers used to quench the gas fire.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Burning Oil Tanks

Photograph of burning oil tanks, Prairie Oil and Gas Company, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Burnt Buildings

Photograph of burnt buildings in Drumright, OK, after a fire.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cable Tool Drilling Rig

Photograph of a typical cable tool drilling rig. Drilling bits (about 8") is on anvil "driller" and tool dresser holding 16 pound sledge hammers to dress the red hot bit. Circle on floor is part of jack used to tighten tool joints. Drumright field, Drumright, OK, c. 1914.
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cimarron River

Photograph of the foot bridge over the Cimarron River, in flood stage, near Drumright, OK, c.1914-1916.
Date: 1914~/1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cimarron River

Photograph of "Maud" fording the Cimarron River at flood stage near Drumright, OK, c.1914-1916.
Date: 1914~/1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cimarron River

Photograph of the Cimarron River near Oilton, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cimarron River Oil Field

Photograph of the Cimarron River Oil Field north of Drumright, OK, c.1914-1915.
Date: 1914~/1915~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cimarron River Oil Field

Photograph of the Cimarron River Oil Field near Drumright, OK, c.1914.
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cushing Oil Field

Photograph of a Rumley Oil Pull, an oil burning tractor used to haul oil field supplies from Cushing to the Drumright Oil Field, in the Cushing Oil Field, Cushing, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dropright

Photograph of Dropright, a small oil field town in the Drumright Oil Field, Drumright, OK, c.1915.
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright

Photograph of main street, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright Oil Field

Photograph of oil wells being pumped by steam drilling engines in the Drumright Oil Field, Drumright, OK, c.1914-1916.
Date: 1914~/1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright Oil Field

Photograph of the McMann Ferry at the Drumright Oil Field, Drumright, OK, c.1914-1916.
Date: 1914~/1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright Oil Field

Photograph of pumping oil from batteries to big tanks in the Drumright Oil Field, Drumright, OK, c.1914.
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright, OK

Photograph of a group in Drumright, OK, c.1914, with the caption, "Ready for overland transportation."
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright, OK

Photograph looking up stream from the bridge north of Drumright, OK, c.1914-1916.
Date: 1914~/1916~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright, OK

Photograph of people "hunting for lost treasures the morning after," Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright, OK

Photograph of a panorama of Drumright, OK, c.1914.
Date: 1914~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drumright State Bank

Photograph of Drumright State Bank, Drumright, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Early Rotary Rig

Photograph of an early Rotary Rig in northern Oklahoma, c. 1925.
Date: 1925~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History