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Oil Fire near Tarport, Pennsylvania
Oil Fire near Tarport, Pennsylvania

Oil Fire near Tarport, Pennsylvania

Artist Detlor & Waddell (American, active 1880s)
Dateca. 1876
MediumAlbumen stereograph
DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 4 5/16 × 6 inches (10.95 × 15.24 cm)
Mount: 4 1/2 × 7 inches (11.43 × 17.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.226
Signednone
InscribedOn mount verso, center, in black type: "DETLOR & WADDELL'S / STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS OF THE OIL COUNTRY, / 59 Main Street, Ground Floor, BRADFORD, PA....38 Oil Fire near Tarport."
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DescriptionImage of silhouetted figures against a sky with dark billowy clouds of smoke above them.Published References
J. H. Beers, History of McKean, from History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron, and Potter, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1890), n.p.
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