Photograph of a row of storefronts with early model automobiles parked in front. The first shop is the "Bakersfield Townsite Office" the other shop has "Coffee Shop" written on it. Several people are seen on the sidewalk between the buildings and the vehicles.

Photograph of a man holding a nitro-shoot torpedo. The camera is looking up and a metal derrick is visible towering above the man's head. The inscription on the back reads "Preparing to drop torpedo loaded with nitroglycerin into borehole. This is an earlier method of stimulating a well to increase production."

Photograph of a man sleeping in the front seat of a mid-century automobile. A drilling rig stands in the background.

Photograph of two men kneeling next to a valve with the ground soaked with oil or water.

Photograph of four men around a well hole, one appears to be holding a hose. The inscription on the back reads "Washing over a diamond core bit prior to removing the core that is inside the core barrel. Diamond core bit being washed above rotary table. UT Archives. Image used for Walter Rundell's book Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin."

Photograph of a modern drilling rig, below the rig there is a building as well as a tank in front.

Photograph of the Monahans Railroad Depot with several men sitting and standing on the platform.

Photograph of a man on a bucking bull (on the left) and another man on a running horse (on the right).

Reprint of a photograph of a two-story wooden building with large group of mostly men (one woman visible) standing outside.

Photograph of numerous bales of cotton with loaded wagons in the background. Several men stand near or on the loaded wagons. Multiple buildings are visible in the far background. The caption on the image reads "Cotton Scene BIG SPRINGS, Texas B. REAGAN DRUGGIST."

Photograph of residences on Scurry Street in Big Spring, Texas in 1909. The photograph shows three houses as well as a fence in the front yards. On the bottom of the photograph, "Residences on Scurry Street Big Springs, Texas" is printed.

Photograph of a pum jack on a small hill. Vegetation is in the foreground.

Photograph of several people, including three women and a young boy, near a chuck wagon. Several horses are seen in the background and one man is kneeling in the foreground with two buckets looking directly into the camera.

Photograph of two men on a horse drawn carriage. The men are in front of a building.

Photograph of a group of men inside the Texas and Pacific Railway depot in Monahans, Texas. In the center of the room stands a stove.

Photograph of the base of a wooden derrick with a bull and calf wheel visible. A small boy in a cap stands next to a wheel.

Photograph of two Texas Rangers, both wearing cowboy hats, sitting astride horses in front of a plain wall. The man on the left is Homer R. Henderson.

Copy Print of a street scene. The dirt road is lined with buildings. A line of telephone or telegraph wires (with poles) line the left side. Numerous people are seen strolling the street while multiple wagons pulled by horses drive down the street or are parked along the sides. Caption on image reads: " Main Street Scene BIG SPRINGS, Texas B. REAGAN DRUGGIST."

Copy print of an interior of a home. A family occupy themselves in their living room. To the left side, a young girl sits at the piano facing her younger sister who holds a doll. The father sits in a wooden rocking chair in the center back of the image sit on the floor in the center playing with a puzzle. Another girl sits in a wooden chair on the right side of the image. Her hands are obscured by a doll which sits on a bed in the foreground.

Photograph of a group of men (sitting on the ground) and women (standing behind men). In the background are small trees in a grid-like pattern and to the left in the background , a white building is visible through the trees.

Photograph of school children in a line in front of a chalkboard. Maps hang above the board and the school teacher stands on the far left. The child third from the right is identified as Paul Frame, son of James Milton Frame.

Group portrait of five men standing behind a sitting man. The five men appear to be law enforcement; most of them wear hip holsters for firearms.

Photograph of an early townsite with a few houses and tents. In the background, there is smoke coming from an unknown source.

Photograph of a man standing at a Chuck Wagon at the 04 Ranch. In the background, three horses stand behind the wagon.