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On June 19, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five tone fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in the Coalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-18F. Luckily there was only one…

On June 19, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five ton fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in the Coalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-18F. Luckily there was only one…

On June 19, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five ton fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in the Coalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-18F. Luckily thre was only one…

On June 9, 1940 there was a boiler explosion hurtling a five ton fire box a quarter of a mile through the air from the Standard well No. 22-17F in theCoalinga Nose field to the Robert S. Lytle Operator well No. 88-18F. Luckily thre was only one…

Building a waterway to a homestead outside of Coalinga. Tom Fearon is one of the men.

Some of the workers at Bunting Iron Works.

Bunting Iron Works

The way to get rid of waste oil in the oil fields was to burn it.

C. E. Ruperts team hauling tank to first refinery in Coalinga fields. C. E. Ruperts is seated and Charlie Sandeson at left, others unknown.

C. R. Vanderlip's Ford car lot