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Source Description
Although West Virginia is the second state in the country for coal production, crude oil has also been drilled for since the mid-19th century. This late 19th-century hand-drawn map illustrates Pennsylvania's Venango County oil basin, and shows locations of wells throughout three counties in the northwestern part of the state.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
w9505s28b
label
[Map of the great Venango oil basin]
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
w9505s28b
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
[Map of the great Venango oil basin]
description
Although West Virginia is the second state in the country for coal production, crude oil has also been drilled for since the mid-19th century. This late 19th-century hand-drawn map illustrates Pennsylvania's Venango County oil basin, and shows locations of wells throughout three counties in the northwestern part of the state.
date
["[1880?–1889?]"]
year
1880
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006118
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Venango (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
Pennsylvania
United States
Venango
Venango (county)
genreBasic
Maps
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Pennsylvania
county
Venango
city
Venango
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
41.3667
schema:longitude
-79.8
extent
1 ms. map : col. ; on sheet 34 x 45 cm.
notes
Title provided by cataloger.
Shows the basin spanning the towns of Venango, Warren and Crawford.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
w9505s28b
type
map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
42e6abc8d8def91b