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This black and white photograph shows a group of men standing before the blacksmith shop in Neodesha, Kansas. Standing second from left is T.J. Norman, Neodesha blacksmith on whose garden plot William M.Mills drilled the first commercially successful oil well in Kansas and in the Mid-Continent Field. Norman moved from the above location to a new place of business on the west bank of the Verdigris river east of town when the well was drilled in 1892.
Date: Between 1880 and 1892
Item Number: 213280
Call Number: FK2.W5 N.73 S.Nor *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213280
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Blacksmiths
Business and Industry - Services - Blacksmith
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Environment - Natural resources - Oil
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Neodesha
Places - Counties - Wilson
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Type of Material - Photographs
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