Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2018.006.027 |
Date |
ca. 1900s |
Description |
A black and white photograph in a sepia tone, on a cabinet card, of an oil well blowout in the jungles of Java. A plume of oil is spraying from what looks like a hole in the ground among heavy vegetation and trees. It was taken while Carlton was working for the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. in the early 1900s. |
Provenance |
Carlton MacIntosh was an International driller. The donor is the granddaughter of Carlton & Frieda MacIntosh. Carlton's father, George, took the family to Austria in 1887 where they teamed up with their Lambton cousins, the Perkins, to form Perkins & MacIntosh Petroleum Tool and Boring Company Ltd. Carlton worked in Java in the early 1900s for Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. |
Print Size |
11cm x 16cm |
Search Terms |
Blowout Gusher Java Jungle Oil Photograph Royal Dutch Petroleum Company |