Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Postcard, Picture |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2018.006 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2018.006.010 |
Other Number |
18.06.10 |
Date |
pre 1914 |
Description |
Black and white photograph postcard in sepia tones of two men standing at an oil drilling site, with others in the background. There are drilling rig tools lying on the ground in foreground. On back states they are persons unknown, oil workers pre WWI in Austria. |
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 |
8.7cm x 14cm |
Search Terms |
Drilling Equipment International Drillers Oil Oil Drilling Site Workers |