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This photo shows several unidentified men in an oil field in Peru, Kansas. An inscription on the photograph may read "Lemmon's [or Lemmou's] tank house." Two horse and cart teams are also visible.
Date: 1905
Item Number: 210038
Call Number: FK2.C2 P.3 Pe *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210038
Agriculture - Livestock - Horses
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Industry
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction
Business and Industry - Chemical, petroleum, and gas - Oil
Date - 1900s - 1905
Environment - Natural resources - Oil
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Peru
Places - Counties - Chautauqua
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Non-motorized
Type of Material - Photographs
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