[Map of the great Venango oil basin]
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Item Information
- Title:
- [Map of the great Venango oil basin]
- Description:
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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:
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[1880?–1889?]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Venango (Pa.)--Maps, Manuscript
- Places:
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PennsylvaniaVenango (county)Venango
- Extent:
- 1 ms. map : col. ; on sheet 34 x 45 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Scale:
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Scale ca. 1:95,200.
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title provided by cataloger.
Shows the basin spanning the towns of Venango, Warren and Crawford.
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the World Below" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2017-2018.
- Identifier:
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06_01_006118
- Call #:
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G3824.V356 1880 .M3x
- Barcode:
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39999059020493
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