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A man transports supplies by horse-drawn cart through an oil field.

Drilling rigs and towers dot the skyline near an oil field adjacent to a crop field.

A small oil well operates in the lawn of a farmhouse.

An oil well operates in the middle of a large field with several other oil wells in the distance.

An oil well sits in the front yard of a farmhouse in Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois.

Robinson, Illinois, residents built several new buildings and brick-paved roads during the time of prosperity that accompanied the oil boom.

An oil well functions in a rural area among houses and trees.

Several oil rigs stand in the eastern portion of the Sandoval oil field in Marion County, Illinois.

Drilling rigs drill to 1550 feet at the Sandoval oil field in Marion County.

Open space surrounds the western portion of the Sandoval oil field in Marion County.

An oil derrick and several small buildings stand in an oil field.

A pump in a wooded area runs from a power house.

Two standard oil rigs stand among trees and fields.

A small group of men stand next to an oil derrick.

Several towers and other buildings line the outskirts of a growing corn field.

Snow covers oil wells in Bridgeport, Illinois.

Several operational oil drilling rigs sit in a large field.

One of three new bank buildings erected in Bridgeport during the late 1800s due to the city's success in the oil industry.

Oil-funded prosperity in Bridgeport, Illinois, provided funding in the late 1800s for the construction of a new Bridgeport High School building.

A small building houses a battery of gas fired boilers at an oil pumping station in Bridgeport, Illinois.

A donkey and several men work along the tracks at a strip mine run by the New Enterprise Coal Company in the Illinois-Iowa area.

Men stand on top of George Washington's head at Mount Rushmore during construction. Construction equipment is seen on top of Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's heads.

A group of men work on the side of Mount Rushmore while sitting on suspended swings during construction.

Jackhammers line drill a sidewall during excavation for the Radio City Music Hall building's foundation.

Construction workers drill line holes using S-68 jackhammers with air being supplied by portable compressors while creating the foundation at Radio City Music Hall.