Petrolia, Canada, 1862-1908 : its advantages as a commercial and residential centre
A civic booster volume issued in 1908 by the London Advertiser for Petrolia, Ontario, marking the oil town's first forty-six years and advertising it to investors and prospective residents. The plates are halftones of committee group portraits in dark suits, oval inset head-and-shoulders vignettes, refinery and street views, with typeset name captions running under and beside each block, useful for grids of mounted portraits, caption typography and industrial-town photography.
