Photograph of Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, TX. A yellow car drives past the camera on a wide paved road, passing by a wide building made of white and blue blocks. The vehicle drives on near the camera past a median with a post on it containing signs saying "JCT" and "62" along with "JCT" and "180". A yellow sign and a stop sign stand at the end of the medium at the center of the photo. On the other side of the median the car drives past, farther into the photo, the building sits in a green lawn populated by bushes and a few trees. The building itself has an entrance that faces the left side of the photo and is made up by a white rectangular overhang whose walls border two doors above which are three rows of short rectangular windows. The sections of the courthouse on either side of the entryway rise to a lower height and have only two rows of windows above the ground level row. A short staircase leads from a walkway up to the doors. The section of the courthouse the doors are attached to is set back into the building a short …

Photograph of the All-American cow outfit on the Higginbotham Ranch in West Texas. Pictured are 8 men on horses and one in the foreground.

Men working on the interior of the rectory. Named on reverse of photo "Allen Smith, Bob Carr, W. L. Wantland, F. L. Killingsworth."

Photograph of the Amerada 1-A Averitt discovery well near Seminole, Texas. The well and a couple of outbuildings are visible.

Painted brick building arched front door, steep pitched roof, steeple at rear. Built and dedicated in 1937 at Highland and Wantland.

Photograph of Frank McGill and an unidentified man looking at a herd of cattle. They stand next to an automobile.

Photograph of men working on the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas.

Photograph of men working on the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas.

Photograph of the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas. Men in work clothes are working on the rig.

Photograph of two men in work clothes working on the Amerada 1-A Averitt discovery well near Seminole, Texas.

Photograph of the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas. A man can be seen working in the background.

Photograph of the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas.

Photograph of the Landreth No. 1 Kirk rig in Gaines County, Texas. Several pipes are lying on the deck of the rig.

Photograph of the Amerada 1-A Averitt discovery well near Seminole, Texas.

Photograph of four men and a boy watching pipes drain liquid at the Amerada 1-A Averitt discovery well near Seminole, Texas.

Photograph of Abe Hendrickson standing on the Landreth No. 1 Kirk well in Gaines County, Texas in 1936.

Photograph of Joe Hathaway, farm boss, posing in a hat and coat in Gaines County, Texas. The Amerada 1-A Averitt discovery well is visible in the background.

Photograph of a long car loaded with bags of mail and postmen, en route running a mail line between Midland and Seminole created by the Spaulding brothers. The car is parked on a dirt surface in front of a Cadillac building with four men and a woman in the back. The driver may be Trafton Yarborough.