Batumi oil reservoirs and oil train
1885 Batumi, Georgia
Oil storage tanks and a freight train at Batumi, photographed in 1885, not long after the port's rail connection to the Baku oilfields turned it into a major outlet for Caucasus petroleum exports.
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