Drilling Collection

Edwin L. Drake's First Oil Well
The first productive oil well in the United States discovered by Edwin L. Drake who is shown in the right foreground with a beard and top hat

Union Soldiers Drilling
(Original Caption) 1861- PA- The camp and regimental drill of the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Northumberland

Riveter On Skyscraper
(Original Caption) Riveter on skyscraper. Undated photograph

Lola Boyle the Riveter
Mrs. Lola Boyle uses a riveter at her job at Brewster Aeronautical Corporation in Newark, New Jersey

General View Of Offshore Oilwell
(Original Caption) View of one of Magnolia Petroleum Company's offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico, 25 miles off the coast of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and 65 miles south of Morgan City

Oil Derrick Beams & Drilling Pipes
(Original Caption) View of a Superior Oil Co. wildcat well at Pacific Creek, Wyoming. Shows the draw-works of the 150-foot drilling rig. Undated photograph

Portion Of Russian Oil Field
(Original Caption) 1926-One of the largest oil fields in the world, over which wars have been threatened and yet may be fought, is in Russia, near Baku, on the Caspian Sea

Lola Boyle the Riveter
Mrs. Lola Boyle uses a riveter at her job at Brewster Aeronautical Corporation in Newark, New Jersey

Man Preparing Drill For Boring; Grease
(Original Caption) 5/27/1946-Cut Bank, OK: SPUDDING... the oil industry has a terminology all of its own. Oil men in the field can carry on a conversation that would baffle the layman

Early Oil Well
(Original Caption) View of an early oil well in Pennsylvania, similar in construction to the Drake Well. Photo circa 1870

Early Oil Drilling Operation
(Original Caption) View of a Century Oil Company drilling operation in the Kern River District of California, circa 1898

Helicopter Above Offshore Drilling Rig
(Original Caption) View of a helicopter flying above an offshore drilling operation. Undated photograph

Oil Drilling Rig
(Original Caption) Hutchinson, KS: Drilling oil well with a tractor-operated rotary drill at Ellenwood (?), Kansas

Diesel Engines Drive Drilling Rig
(Original Caption) Santa Fe Springs, CA: Diesel engines driving a drilling rig with mud pump, drilling oil

Oil Derrick Pumping Closer Up
(Original Caption) Sulphur Bluffs, Texas-: Pumping unit at the Reynolds Lease of the Shell Oil Co. Inc. - 5 miles south of Sulphur Bluffs, Texas. Undated photograph

1910; The First Drill On A Lake
(Original Caption) Drilling over water has come a long way, too. Here is the first sucessful "marine" effort. This is a 1910 scene at Lake Caddo in Louisiana

Illus. Of Early Well Drilling Machinery
(Original Caption) Engraving depicting early machinery for drilling deep wells for water, oil or gas. Undated illustration

Oil Drilling Operation Illustration
(Original Caption) Lithograph entitled "The Successful Well, " depicting a prosperous oil drilling operation. From a painting by H. P. Geugembre

Two Men Boring A Petroleum Oil Well
(Original Caption) Oil Petroleum: Drilling for Petroleum in the Baku Oil Region in 1886. In 1872 the output of Baku was 16.400 tons. In 1883 it had jumped to 205.000 tons. Undated illustration

Lieutenant Drilling A Company Of Men
(Original Caption) The Riel Rebellion-Gabriel Dumont, Riel's lieutenant, who was killed in the Battle of Last Friday, drilling a company of half-breeds. ORIGINAL CAPTION

Old Oil Well, Inset Of 1St Oil Well
(Original Caption) Undated-Illustration of oil drilling well with a small steam engine removed from wooden storage tanks. Insert (in proportion) Col. Drake's first oil well in Titusville, Penn

Woodcut; Man Bores For Oil In Farmhouse
(Original Caption) The oil regions of Pennsylvania. Boring for oil on the Sauder's farm for the New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Consolidated Petroleum and Mining Co. Woodcut, 1865

Fred Haise Demonstrating Drilling
(Original Caption) Kennedy Space Center, Fla.: Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission

Offshore Drilling Ship
(Original Caption) 6/20/1970-Boston, MA- The "Glomar Challenger" is off on a 40

Men At Work On Drilling Rig
(Original Caption) 6/19/1977-Prudhoe Bay, AL: A drilling crew at British Petroleum's well #J-6 puts another extension into the well that's the newest in Prudhoe Bay, begun only two days ago

Team W/Female Member Working On Oil Rig
(Original Caption) 2/6/1979-Shengli, China: A woman (C) works with men on an oil rig in the Shengli oil field, China's second biggest. The field produces about 128 million barrels of oil a year

Mexican Oil Drillers on Platform
(Original Caption) 2/12/1979-Villahermosa, Mexico: Part of Mexico's oil boom are these workers near Villahermosa

2500 BC Egyptian carpenter drilling into a chair by twisting a bow string around a shaft
History, Africa, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Carpenter, Making Chair, Bow Drill, 2500bc, Ancient History, Archers, Arrows, Bows, Drilling, Machines, Shaft, Sitting, String, Twisting, Weapons

Off-shore oil rig surrounded by sailing fireboat and flying helicopter, underwater cross-section depicting the rigs foundations

Woman working with electric drill in factory, (B&W)

Vertical drilling machine
Vintage engraving of a Vertical drilling machine

Hand drilling machine
Illustration of a hand drilling machine

Hand drilling tools
Illustration of a hand drilling machines

1945 offshore gas drilling rig, elevated view

Metal screw, side view

Brace-and-bit, front view

Hand drill, front view

Digger trucks, excavator, and man drilling hole in ground using pneumatic drill and compressor

Illustration of seed drilling showing coulter cutting groove in tilth into which the seed falls

Young man and woman working in plane body in factory, (B&W)

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