Photograph of a group of people posing outside of the clapboard school building in Rising Star, Texas. Older girls and boys stand divided in the back of the group, a group of younger girls stands before them, and then a group of young boys sit in front of the group. An older man with a cane can be seen standing to the right.

Photograph of a young child leaning on a small stack of hay. She has short, dark hair and wears a white dress, sash, and boots. She is standing in front of a background painted to resemble and outdoor scene and atop a floor strewn with hay.

Photograph of a group of people posing together for a country sporting event. Older girls and women stand to the left and older boys and men stand to the right behind a fence. Many of them are carrying farming implements. A mixed group of younger children sits by an open gate on the left. A small livestock pen has a boy seated beside it to the right. The heads of two reined horses are visible in the foreground at the bottom of the photo.

Photograph of a group of boys and girls of various ages standing with Custer Cox in front of the door of a schoolhouse. The group is arranged in three rows, with younger children standing in the front and middle rows and older children standing on either side of Custer Cox in the back row. Cox is wearing a suit with a boutonniere and stiff white collar. The children in the front row are barefoot. A handwritten note on the reverse side of the mat says "Custer might be teacher."

Photograph of a group of white men and boys posing with their animal drawn carts in a clearing. Eight carts are positioned around a small mound. Most are drawn by mules, though Custer Cox can be seen with a team of white mares to the upper right.

Photograph of members of the Lone Star brass band posing together with their instruments. The thirteen white men are arranged in three rows, with six standing in the background, five kneeling in the middle, and two sitting in front. A bass drum to the right has the words "Carbon Band" written along its rim and "Lone" written above a star. A United States flag hangs in the background to the left. The leftmost man in the back row is identified as Custer Cox.

Photograph of people standing on Main Street in Eastland, Texas. The center of the photo features the street filled with people and livestock. Shops, banks, and utility poles line the dirt road.

Photograph of people standing outside of a wooden building that has "Mineral Water Well No. 1. Bath House" written along its overhang. The crowd is mostly comprised of men wearing suits and hats, though five women can be seen on the porch to the left. Horse-drawn carts flank the structure. "Carbon Mineral Water Co." is written in script on a sign that is suspended from one of the building's gables.

Photograph of a group of men on- and in front of the porch of the Carbon Mineral Water Company and Bath House. Twelve men wearing dark suits, white aprons, and ornate collars bearing Freemason imagery. The men standing on the ground below the porch are wearing suits and white aprons. A door labeled "Office" is visible behind the men on the porch. Someone is standing within the doorway. The man standing on the ground a hat over his chest is identified as Custer Cox. The man on the top right with the sash is identified as William "Bill" Gilbert.

Photograph of siblings Hosea and Mabel Maxwell. Hosea wears a dark suit, while Mabel wears a lightly hued dress. A painted backdrop featuring flowers and a curtain is visible behind them. The photo is inside of a cardboard fame with a white front embossed with wavy lines.

Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Ova Milling Brown and LaNelle Hefner in costumes holding baby dolls with men, a horse and buggy, and houses in the background, taken in Sweetwater in 1916. The second picture is a portrait of mother and daughter Lydia Young and Verna Nell Young taken in the mid 1920's in Eastland.

Photograph of the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas.

Photograph of four Oil Fields in Desdemona, TX, c. 1919.

Photograph of the wreckage of T&P train #703 at Ranger, Texas. Written below the image are "[sic] Wreck of the Sunshine Special at Ranger, Texas 1919 - Loco #703" and "H. L. Gore Collection."

Photograph of a street scene in Ranger, Eastland County, Texas, 1919. Main street 1919 Ranger Texas.

Copy negative of John Young and Price Smith standing on a wooden structure that is part of an oil rig in Ranger, Texas.

Copy negative of two pictures an oil derrick during the Ranger, Texas oil boom. The picture on the left is of the base of an oil well, men working, and equipment around it in a field. The picture on the right shows the whole tower of the well, the small building at its base, men working, and equipment.

Photograph of a head on collision between T&P trains #5 & #6 east of Cisco, Texas. The left train's engine is #706. Written below the image are "East of Cisco, Texas early 1920's T&P trains 5&6" and "Lucy Simpson Collection."

Portrait of Joe Canaris, a photographer, and Victor Cornelius, an artist, wearing ties and hats.

Photograph of an oil derrick seen from across a small body of water.

Photograph of an oil derrick with oil spewing out of a pipe at the base of it.

Photograph of an oil field with rows of oil derricks in the foreground and background.

Photograph of an oil field, with men, wagons, horses, buildings, and oil derricks.

Photograph of an oil derrick at an oil field in Pioneer, Texas with buildings behind it and stacks of pipes in front of it. A note typed on the photo says: "Seaman Co's Webb No. 2 - Pioneer."