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Oil Fire at Spindle Top 1900

July 15, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)

This photo shows an oil “gusher”, and a tank containing 37,000 barrels of oil on fire at the “Spindle Top”  oil-field in Texas. Just 3 weeks after the great fire at Jennings, the tank seen on the left of the photograph was mysteriously ignited. Everything hereabouts, even the very [...]

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Caught in a Prairie “Muskeg” 1900

July 14, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)
This photograph represents an unpleasant and rather exciting experience which occasionally falls to the lot of the Western settler. The correspondent who sends us the photograph writes as follows :
” We were driving out to a ranch and had diverged from the trail in order to see a fine [...]

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Sleeping ship on the Delaware River – 1900

July 11, 2010

(Newsclip from an adventure magazine ~ 1900)
This striking photograph shows a unique accident which happened recently at Marcus Hook, on the Delaware River. The French barque Alice and Isabelle was lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier, after her cargo had been unloaded, when suddenly, after a few preliminary shakes to warn the crew, [...]

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Beware the Fake Prints on Ebay!

July 5, 2010

Con artists sold fake Banksy prints on eBay in £50k fraud..
Kingston Crown Court heard that the pair of ‘old fashioned conmen’ pocketed £57,000 in the scam until their disgruntled customers contacted police.
Read more:  Conmen Lee Parker and Grant Champkins Howard sold fake Banksy prints on eBay

All the Prints we sell on Pictorial Gems [...]

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