File:View of Spindletop, 1902.png

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A view of early exploration in the Beaumont area. This clustered field is directly atop the large Spindletop Salt Dome - just one year after initial subsurface oil discovery.

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English: Photograph of the Spindletop Oil field in 1902, one year after initial drilling in 1901. The discovery of concentrated oil and gas caused a frenzy of drilling with companies establishing wells within close proximity.
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Source OIL FIELDS OF THE TEXAS-LOUISIANA GULF COASTAL PLAIN, USGS Bulletin 282, https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0282/report.pdf
Author United States Geological Survey

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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.

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