#29 Oil Booms: Workers in First Refinery

Item Metadata

Title

#29 Oil Booms: Workers in First Refinery

Date Created

ca. 1895-1899

Subject

Casper (Wyo.) -- History -- Pictorial works.; Casper (inhabited place)

Description

Photograph of Dr. Fred Salathe, Charlie?, John Duncan, L.W. Bailey, and Oscar Heistand who worked for the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company Refinery in Casper, Wyoming. The refinery was built by chemist and refiner, F.J. Carman in 1895 (Mokler, 1923). This photograph is a part of the Chuck Morrison Photographs and Papers and is organized within a series of historic photographs Morrison collected or made reproductions of.

Type

Image

Creator

Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company

Is Part Of

Historic Casper Series. Charles "Chuck" Morrison Photographs and Papers, NCA 01.v.1998.01 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center).

Identifier

NCA 01.v.1998.01_RefineryWorkers_a; NCA 01.v.1998.01_RefineryWorkers_b

Format

JPG

Provenance

Elizabeth McDonald Collection

Has Format

TIFF

Original Format

Still Image

Citation

Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company, “#29 Oil Booms: Workers in First Refinery,” Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center Digital Collections, accessed March 20, 2026, https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/items/show/10283.