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Oil Barrels
Volume (Liquid Capacity)
Early Scarcity of Barrels
Standardization
Making Wooden Oil Barrels
Used Barrels
Observations, Wooden Oil Barrels
Bibliography

Bibliography

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Hardwick, R.E., 1958, The oilman's barrel, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 122 pp.

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Smiley, Alfred Wilson, 1907, A few scraps oily and otherwise, The Derrick Publishing Co., 220 pp.

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