Automatic Drilling, Bay City, Texas
Russell Lee
(American, 1903–1986)
1948
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
DimensionsSheet: 16.51 x 24.13 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mack and Paula Lee
Accession number1995.836
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsBlind stamp, bottom ctr.: File Copy / Do not remove. Verso, typed label, ctr.: Lee Automatic Drilling #30 of Humble Oil & Refining Company, Sugar Valley Field, near Bay City, Texas July ‘48 / 59781 M-8. Stamped in black ink, u.l.: D74. stamped in red ink, bottom ctr: Please credit / Standard Oil Co. (N.1) / Photo by Russell Lee. Stamped in red ink, l.r. (slightly blurred): Return unused photos to / Standard Oil Co., (N.1.) / Public Relations Dept. / 30 ? Rockefeller Plaza / New York, 20, New York.ProvenanceMack Lee, Winchester, MA; gift to MFA December 1995.
