# Early oil well at Del Bonita, 1936

From [*Heritage of the High Country: A History of Del Bonita and Surrounding Districts*](/books#heritage-of-the-high-country) (Del Bonita Historical Society, 1981), printed p. 198; PDF scan 212. ISBN 0-88925-190-8.

Complete book caption: “Early oil well at Del Bonita — 1936.” The source page and photograph were visually checked against the preserved PDF.

Date: 1936. The printed photograph caption supplies this date.

[University of Calgary catalogue](https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3408T8W0EU). The photograph’s creator is not named in the printed caption.

The curator supplied this PNG crop and identified it as coming from the Del Bonita book. The exact supplied bytes and printed caption are retained, without enhancement or recompression. It is a crop of a printed book scan.

Image: [preserved PNG](/images/del-bonita-early-oil-well-1936-book.png). Dimensions: 335 × 509. Bytes: 95925. SHA-256: `5063a7648a0e5de00add48840261b10c70a1845ff5773844093cd871b9deeb3c`. Received into this archive: 2026-10-31T16:44:04.752Z.

No photograph-specific open licence is asserted.

[Machine-readable provenance](/provenance/del-bonita-early-oil-well-1936-book.json).