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Lot 105
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$254
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Lot Description
Photo-Illustrated Books & Photography Albums
LANCE, Jack, compiler. The Oklahoma City Oil Field in Pictures. Oklahoma City: Jack Lance, 1931.
LANCE, Jack, compiler. The Oklahoma City Oil Field in Pictures. Oklahoma City: Jack Lance, 1931.
4to. Numerous illustrations after photographs. Original color pictorial wrappers (covers toned, some chipping at extremities).
FIRST EDITION of the photographic history of oil rigging in Oklahoma City that depicts oil production equipment, oil fields, wildcatters and businessmen, and the famous Wild Mary gusher—a run-away oil well that blew out for 11 days in 1930. RARE: we trace no copies of this work on the market or previously at auction.
This lot is located in Chicago.