A postcard view (ca. 1900) of a burning oil field in Baku, Azerbaijan. Note the open lake of stored
oil in the foreground. Whole oil fields would burn to the ground in some of the largest of these
fires, only to be rebuilt again in the same style — a style used throughout the world at that time.

© Peter A. Scholle, 1999

 

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