MATSON Photo Print 1933 Palestine Israel Iraq Petroleum Company Pipeline Jezreel
HQ Photo Print, Matson Photo Service
21X25 CM
Dropping a welded pipe into a trench with a crane while laying the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipe line across Palestine's Plain of Esdraelon, July 1933. Completed in 1934, the pipeline ran from Kirkuk to Al Hadithah (now NW Saudi Arabia), then branching with pipelines to Tripoli and Haifa
