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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: John A. Mather, Mather's Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania Parts 1 & 2, 1895
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: John A. Mather, Mather's Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania Parts 1 & 2, 1895
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John A. Mather

Mather's Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania Parts 1 & 2, 1895
Photo albums (2); linen-backed printing-out-paper prints (24)
Overall 10 x 13 1/4 inches
With Mather's caption in the negative, some with additional captions in manuscript.
$ 9,000.00
John A. Mather, Mather's Historical Oil Region Views of Western Pennsylvania Parts 1 & 2, 1895
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Two parts in two volumes, with Letterpress titles to each part, two preliminary leaves of text in part one. The present works were made and published by the pioneer photographer...
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Two parts in two volumes, with Letterpress titles to each part, two preliminary leaves of text in part one.

The present works were made and published by the pioneer photographer of the Pennsylvania oil fields, John A. Mather. The first oil well in the United States was drilled by E. L. Drake in Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, near Titusville, in 1859. On the 29th of August oil was struck. John A. Mather, a recent English immigrant and aspiring photographer, heard of Drake's discovery and the ensuing oil rush, and moved to Titusville in October 1860. He set up a gallery, built a floating photo studio, and over the next forty years compiled an exhaustive photographic record of the growth of the oil industry. The present photographs, many richly-printed with stunning details, were created in 1895 from earlier negatives.

OCLC locates four copies of part one, and only one of part two.
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