# Sunshine Oil Well No. 1, Del Bonita, August 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. 197; PDF scan 211. ISBN 0-88925-190-8.

Complete book caption: “Sunshine Oil Well #1, Del Bonita. August 1936. Bull wheel in derrick due to brake failure.” The source page and photograph were visually checked against the preserved PDF.

Date: August 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-sunshine-oil-well-august-1936-book.png). Dimensions: 340 × 349. Bytes: 115189. SHA-256: `06cafc16cda4d4036f6c9b12c7bba9602e83cebf3245d1edc53bc4c5d9d34393`. Received into this archive: 2026-10-31T16:44:04.752Z.

No photograph-specific open licence is asserted.

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