This vignette from an 1865 stock certificate of the Tarr Story and Cherry Run Oil Co.
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows a scene from the early Pennsylvania oil fields. Oil
is being transferred from derrick to wooden storage tanks to wood barrels. The barrels,
in turn, are loaded onto barges awaiting transport downstream to railroad facilities.
So little water flowed in these creeks that check dams were built to accumulate water;
then the water was released and barges raced to catch the flood crest. This led to
lots of crashes, spills, and widespread oil pollution. The certificate was
printed by Krebs & Bro. Lithographers of Pittsburg, PA.

 

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