Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2018.006 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2018.006.014 |
Description |
A photo album page with three black and white photos on one side and three on the other. Side A: 1.Top left- A family picture of parents, child and baby. Identified as the Gilby's. 2. Top right- Two adults and a female child. Identified as Friends & Aunty. 3. Bottom left- Ropienka Oil Fields pre WWI with several drilling rigs. Boryslaw is written on the photo. Side B 1. Top left- Three women sitting at a table, Frieda MacIntosh is on the right, with a man, James Nicholas, and a woman standing behind. 2. Top right- Carlton MacIntosh looking down in Humniska. 3. Bottom left- Group of twelve men posing in front of drilling rig with casing lying beside them. One man is identified as Booth- standing with a cane. It is in Germany. |
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. |
Print Size |
18cm x 16cm |
Search Terms |
Canadian Drilling Rig Dog Drillers, Oil Family Galicia Germany International Drillers Photograph Workers |
People |
Booth Gilby MacIntosh, Carlton MacIntosh, Frieda Nicholas Nichols Nicholson |