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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: KD-02
Item: 00007
Title: Arthur Townley's oil well, Robinson (N.D.)
Date: 1926-1930
Creator: Paye, P. N., Mrs.
Summary: Two people walk on the land near Arthur Townley's oil well at Robinson, N.D. Smoke rises from the chimney of a building on the property. An oil derrick stands at left. Two wooden buildings, one at center, the other on the right, stand nearby. The building on the right has a smokestack and a cloud of black smoke is drifting to the right.||Oil was discovered near Robinson in 1925. A. C. Townley began a drilling operation the following year, however no major discoveries were made, and Townley's wells closed after several years.
Red ID: PH_I_122111 Image ID: 183724 Image Notes: 00032-KD-02-00007

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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