Divided Back Era postcards: Produced from 1907 through 1914.
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Image Two mile run at Monarch Park.  Postmarked in 1908. Image The View from Clark's Summit, postmarked 1909.
Image Horse Creek Image A Picture of the horse-drawn Oil City Fire Department, postmarked 1909.
Image Carnegie library, postmarked in 1909 Image The Auto Truck, Oil City Fire Department, postmarked in 1912.
Image Looking up Centre Street, East from Oil Creek, postmarked in 1912. Image The Lake Shore Tunnel, postmarked in 1910.
 Image Another picture of Center Street, supposedly postmarked in 1909 (it's kind of hard to read).  Note the lack of trolley tracks and telephone poles, as compared to the later photo above.  Image National Transit Shops and South Side, postmarked in 1909.
Image  Flowing oil well, just after being torpedoed.  Postmarked in 1907. Image Passing time in Oil City, Pa.  Postmarked in 1911.
 Image  The Allegheny River, near Oil City.  Postmarked in 1912 Image Auditorium and Dance Hall, Monarch Park.  Postmarked in 1909.
Image Union Station RR Terminal, downtown Oil City. Image The Thriller, Monarch Park.  Postmarked in 1913.
Image A view of Seneca street, around the 1900's I believe Image A possibly later view of Seneca Street, looking up the opposite direction from the picture to the left.
Image Birds eye view from Hogback, Oil City, Pa.  Postmarked Jamestown NY in 1907. Image View of Oil Creek and Oil City, PA.  Postmarked  Oil City on Sept. of 1907.
Image Oil City Trust Co., Oil City, Pa.  Postmarked in 1909. Image A somewhat idealized picture of Centre Street at night.  Postmarked in 1915.
Image Number 1 Hose House and City Hall.  Postmarked in 1909. Image Bissell Avenue, postmarked in 1913.
Image West First Street looking west, postmarked in 1910. Image West third street.  The postmarks is hard to make out, it is possibly 1910.  This one is interesting as the writer mentions that "many people sick in the county with fever, the water is bad and scarce"
Image The home of Coil Oil Johnny, postmarked in 1912.  Note the derrick in the back yard. Image Central Ave, postmarked in 1912.
Image Seneca St., postmarked in 1935. Image St. Joseph's Parochial School, postmarked in 1911. 
Image Center St. in 1906 Image The Oil Exchange building.
Image The old Y.M.C.A.  Postmarked in 1916, the author mentions that that he is going to "drill the well in today". Image The Arlington Hotel, postmarked in 1909.
Image The Wrecked Building, Eclipse Oil Refinery fire Oct 11, 1911.  Between Oil City and Franklin.  The card is postmarked in 1915. Image A view of cottage hill showing First Presbyterian, Baptist and Catholic Churches, and High School.  Picture dates from approximately 1905 or 1906.
Image The Reno Oil Refinery, postmarked 1910. Image St. Stephens Catholic Church in 1906.
Image The Post Office and Y.M.C.A. Image A hand colored view of St. Stephens Church shortly after the turn of the century.  It is postmarked 1912.
Image A view of the Petroleum Bridge at night.  I am told that they used the same picture as the "day" view card, and painted in the night sky and lights. Image The three bridges over the Allegheny.  Note the suspension bridge at the foot of Petroleum St.
Image A divided back era postcard of the Union Depot, and a view of Sycamore St. It was Postmarked in 1911

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