Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Photograph, Black-and-White |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2021.003 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2021.003.001 |
Other Number |
FD.4.3.18.p |
Title |
Petroleum Drillers 1879 |
Date |
1879 |
Description |
Black and white copy of a studio photograph of 11 men in suits, some are standing and three are sitting. They are identified at the bottom of the photo as if it had been in a newspaper. It reads as follows: Petroleum drillers who went out to oil fields in Java, Galicia, Germany and other distant countries. The photograph was made in 1879. Standing (left to right) are: Cyrus Perkins, Alvin Townsend, John Martin, A.E. Slack, Eugene Yager, Neil Sinclair, John S. Bergheim, W.H. McGarvey. Sitting: George McIntosh, George Fair, Angus McKay. |
Provenance |
The Lambton drillers were experts in their fiield and were in high demand to bring in oil wells world wide. |
Print Size |
24cm x 15.5cm |
Search Terms |
Foreign Drillers Galicia Germany International Drillers Java Photograph |
People |
Burgheim, John S. Fair, George MacIntosh, George Martin, John McGarvey, W. H. McKay, Angus Perkins, Cyrus Sinclair, Neil Slack, A. E. Townsend, Alvin Yager, Eugene |