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[Buckboard Wagon]
Photograph of a buckboard wagon sitting in a field. A tree is visible in the background.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Orbeck, Betty
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chicago "C" Ranch House]
Photograph of the Chicago Ranch (also called the C Ranch) headquarters in southeastern Andrews County. In front of the house there are dead trees and a sidewalk.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Orbeck, Betty
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cattle in the Street]
Photograph of a herd of cattle on Wall and Colorado streets being driven from South Texas to Lubbock for the opening of The Ranch Headquarters there.
Date:
1976
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[El Paso Products Complex]
Photograph of an aerial view of the El Paso Products Complex located south of Odessa, Texas. Interstate twenty is shown in the background.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Heron, Clyde
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Barred Door]
Reprint of a barred door of a small wooden building. A tree is standing just right of the doorway.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Base of a Wooden Derrick]
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.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Shoopman, Bill
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Building Below a Water Tower]
Photograph of a water tower behind a small, one-story building with a sign that says, "Ward County Court House, City of Monahans City Hall and Fire Department." Two automobiles are parked in front of the building and some other buildings are partially visible on the left side of the image. A handwritten note on the back says, "Temporary court house at Monahans, Tex. Used while new Court House was being built."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Big Springs, Texas]
Photograph of downtown Big Springs, Texas showing the Hotel Settles in Howard County. There are early model automobiles parked along the street and buildings in the background.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Midland, Texas]
Photograph of a street scene in downtown Midland, Texas. There are multiple modern, multi-storied buildings.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Drilling Rig]
Photograph of a drilling rig with a hill in the background and several trees in the forefront of the picture.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Roberts, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Men Around a Well Hole]
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."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Men Posing with a Pipe]
Photograph of four men posing next to a pipe that is ready to be lowered into a ditch. More crew members are visible in the ditch and derricks are visible in the background. The caption under the image reads "The following written on back of original: 'Just a sample of Pick and shovel crew digging pipe line ditch -- and this is not the worst, by far.'"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group of People with a Chuck Wagon]
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.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gusher]
Photograph of gusher blowing in the Kadane Oil Company No. 1 J. Hemmi Sand 5235-5265- initial flow 60 bbls per hour opened new deep field northeast Archer County, two miles S. of Scottland.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[gushing oil pipe]
Photograph of a pipe with oil gushing from it. There is a man squatting behind the pipe, but his head is not visible, There is a pool of oil on the ground and a house is visible at the left.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gushing Oil Rig and Derrick]
Photograph of an oil rig and derrick with oil gushing. Sign on the rig reads, "Westbrook Oil Corporation Hendrick #1, Winkler County."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hazel Mountain]
Photograph of a mountain in a desert landscape. The caption on the image reads "367 Hazel Mountain in the Davis Mountains near Van Horn Tex. Home of a large rich silver mine. (c) Jack Nolan."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Nolan, Jack
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hobbs, New Mexico]
Photograph of a street scene in Hobbs, New Mexico. The street is lined with storefronts with two rows of automobiles in front. Several people are seen in the street.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Home Interior]
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.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Hotel Stockton]
Photograph of a large three-story brick building with a sign on the facade that reads "Hotel Stockton." Several people are lined up in front of the building looking at the camera and the caption on the image reads "Hotel Stockton, Ft. Stockton, Texas."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Industrial Complex]
Photograph of a large industrial complex. There are various rigs and structures throughout the photograph as well as shrubbery in the foreground.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Main Street Scene]
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."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Man Holding a Torpedo]
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."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Man Lowering Pipe]
Photograph of a man lowering a pipe into the ground with the aid of a pipe horse, manila rope and a 'cat head' brake method. There is a man laying on the ground using the pole above him for shade. Below the man, "Lowering pipe into ditch with aid of pipe horse, manila rope and 'cat head' brake method Roustabout probably taking nap in shade" is printed below.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History