Turning Out Oil and Gasoline to Help Win the War
3/25/1918
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Original Caption states: TURNING OUT OIL AND GASOLINE TO HELP WIN THE WAR. A steel tank train conveying cured oil from the wells in the Yale Field in Oklahoma to refinery. Each car contains 10, 000 gallons. The annual production of mineral oil in the United States is approximately eleven billion gallons, or 65 percent of the world's output. March 25, 1918, 1918.
This primary source comes from the Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs.
Full Citation: 165-WW-201A-32; Turning Out Oil and Gasoline to Help Win the War; 3/25/1918; Industries of War - Gasoline and Oil; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918; Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, Record Group 165; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/gasoline-oil-photo-wwi, March 28, 2024]