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Here are three photographs showing Purcell-Mull Drilling Company drilling Mahan-Tarr #1 in Barber County, Kansas. The well is located in the Medicine Lodge field. The well was owned by Mrs. T. C. Mahan of Coldwater and her sister Mrs. Sewell Tarr of Huntsville, Arkansas who inherited the land from their father Frank Markham.
Date: December, 1954
Item Number: 315187
Call Number: FK2.B1 .3 Pe *1-3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 315187
Business and Industry - Chemical, petroleum, and gas - Oil
Date - 1950s - 1954
Environment - Natural resources - Oil
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Barber
Type of Material - Photographs
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