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English: "Reproduction, copyrighted in 1890, of a retouched photograph showing Edwin L. Drake, to the right, and the Drake Well in the background, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first commercial well was drilled in 1859 to find oil."
Date circa 1890
date QS:P,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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