Three Figure Friday

One of things that separates me from “real archaeologists” is my deep distain for images in my publications. In fact, I’ve never really understood how images work in publications which isn’t to say that I don’t recognize their value. Perhaps this is what distinguishes me from my colleagues who spent their graduate school years pouring over slides upon which to base their lectures. Instead, I was thinking about what texts to use in my history surveys. 

In celebration of my inability to use images properly, I share with you three images from an article that I just submitted on the archaeology of petroleum production. You can read a draft of the article here.

Figure 1. View west with south and east elevations of the central powerhouse of the South Penn Oil Company, Mallory Lot 6 Lease, Watsonville Field, Klondike, McKean County, PA dating to approximately 1939. Photo by John Nicely. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3552.photos.360884p/

Figure 2. Clarence Iverson No. 1, the first successful commercial well in North Dakota (source: James N. Holter, Williston, North Dakota)

Figure 3: Three pump jacks in Hess Corporation colors stand outside of Manitou Township in the Bakken oil patch in North Dakota in 2016. Photo by William Caraher.