[Postcard of Borger Street]

Postcard of Borger Street in Hutchinson County, Texas. It is a busy street lined with storefronts and crowded with early model automobiles. A banner hung across the street reads "White Way Dance." A wooden building on the far right is labeled (handwritten) Rig Theatre and has a sign "Theatre" on its facade. The caption on the image reads "Borger, Texas - World's Greatest Oil Field" and "Published by Gale Baker OIL FIELD PHOTO SERVICE Amarillo -- Borger -- Tulsa #55."
Date: unknown
Creator: Baker, Gale
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Odessa Brass Band]

Photograph of the Odessa Brass Band, in uniforms with instruments, sitting on the front porch of a building. Several members are not looking at the camera.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bill Shoopman Photography
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the LeSure Well]

Photograph of the LeSure well in Mitchell County, Texas. A view of the steel derrick and well site can also be seen within the photograph.
Date: 1922
Creator: Classen, Willard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Geronimo and U.S. guards on horseback]

Postcard of Geronimo, Apache Chief, and five U.S. Guards all on horseback in a grassy field. The writing in the middle of photo reads: "Geronimo, Alpache Chief, and U.S. Guard." The writing on the left says: "Copy write. 1907. By G. B Cornish. Arkansas City, Kansas."
Date: 1907~
Creator: Cornish, G. B.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Frontier Home]

Postcard of a frontier home with two men and a woman in front of it with a stove on the left and a long horn cow with it's head in a large wooden feed tub. The writing on the left of the picture reads: "Copyright 1907 by Geo. B. Cornish, Arkansas City, Kans." The writing on the right reads "A Frontier Home."
Date: 1907~
Creator: Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft)
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of a Rig Building Crew]

Photograph of a rig building crew, there are five men all in long-sleeve tops and overalls with hats. Around them are multiple piles of wood. Two of the men are identified as Tom Gleason, rig contractor and John Dawn, crew pusher.
Date: unknown
Creator: Crawford Photo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Rig Contractors]

Photograph of five rig contractors on the rig floor. They are all wearing long-sleeve shirts with overalls and hats and are facing the camera. The caption on the image reads "Tom Gleason - Rig Contractor. Clare Rayson - Crew Pusher."
Date: unknown
Creator: Crawford Photo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Odessa Medical Center Hospital]

Postcard of a six story shopping center building that has eighteen windows on each story and smaller one story building attached in back. The windows on the both the large part of the building and the small part of the building face streets and meet up on a street corner with a wooden street lamp/phone line pole, with phone lines visible through the middle of the photo, and a one way arrow pointing to the left. The entrance is facing the one way street with a board that reads "Medical Center Hospital," on top of the cement awning that shades the entrance. On the back there is print on the top left that reads: "Odessa's 408-bed Medical Center Center Hospital is a county-owned institution staffed by all of the city's 69 Physicians ans Surgeons. It's a medical center for a wide area of West Texas, and is one of the most modern and finest equipped hospitals in the area."
Date: unknown
Creator: Dexter Press Inc.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Odessa College Library]

Postcard of the Odessa College Library, in the center of the beautifully landscape junior college campus in Odessa, Texas. The photo is semi-framed by the tree branches at the top of the photo and distinct cropping of the postcard itself. The print on the top left of the postcard reads: "The Odessa College Library in the center of the beautifully landscape junior, founded in 1946, is considered one of the finest in the State, and allows full accreditation for the student planning to complete his education at a senior institution." The print on the bottom left on the post card reads: "16179-C." The print vertically across the middle reads: Published exclusively by Texas Color Cards, Box 286, Leakey, Texas." The horizontal writing on the bottom in the middle reads: "dp made by Dexter Press, Inc. West Myack, New York." The wring on the right hand side in the middle that is in a font mimicking calligraphy reads: "Post Card." There is a box that is made with a dotted line with the writing "Place Stamp Here" printed inside the box.
Date: 1946~
Creator: Dexter Press, Inc.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street in Rankin, Texas]

Postcard of a street in Rankin, Texas. The dirt street is lined with storefronts and early model automobiles. The caption on the image reads "Main St. Rankin, Texas. (Doubleday)."
Date: unknown
Creator: Doubleday
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Oil Gusher in Beaumont, Texas]

Postcard of a group of men observing an oil gusher. The men are standing directly beneath the oil rig and are facing the camera. In the background of the photograph, there is a barn with a fence around it. The caption on the image reads "Oil Gusher, Beaumont, Tex."
Date: unknown
Creator: E. Szafir & Son Co.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Springs at Big Springs, Texas]

Postcard of the springs at Big Springs, Texas. There is a body of water in the foreground of the photograph with rock crevices behind it. On top of the crevices there are trees and a fence.
Date: unknown
Creator: F. J. Schaaf Card Company
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Winkler County Court House]

Postcard of the Winkler County Court House in Kermit, Texas. The inscription on the back reads, "Winkler County Court House Kermit, Texas. This view shows the modern court house of Kermit, Texas. Located at the lower corner of New Mexico in the Panhandle of Texas, it is close to Carlsbad Caverns, Big Bend National Park and Mexico. Main industries are cattle raising and oil fields with the skyline occasionally broken by oil derrick rigs. Published by F. J. Schaaf, Alamogordo, New Mexico."
Date: unknown
Creator: F. J. Schaaf Post Card Company
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of Midland]

Photograph of an aerial view of Midland, Texas.
Date: 1928
Creator: Fairchild Aerial Survey, Inc.
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gushing Oil Valve]

Photograph of a pipe that is busting with oil. There are multiple valves and in the background there is a field.
Date: 1930~
Creator: Holbrook
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Burkburnett Oil Field]

Postcard of the Burkburnett oil field, including a number of wooden derricks and small wooden buildings with a cloud of smoke or steam obscuring parts of the center of the image. The caption on the image reads "Burkburnett New Field Nov. 1-19 Kodak Shop."
Date: unknown
Creator: Kodak Shop
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sonora, Texas Main Street]

Postcard of streets, the court house, and cowboys at Sonora, Texas. The street is lined with storefronts and mid-century automobiles are parked and drive on the roadway. A courthouse is seen at the far end of the street in the background and the caption on the image reads "Main Street Sonora, Texas Lippe Studio."
Date: unknown
Creator: Lippe's Studio
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Tank Struck by Lightening]

Postcard of a large cloud of smoke and fire on a flat landscape. The caption on the image reads "P. F. Co.'s 55,000 bbl. Tank struck by lightening Aug 5 1912 Electra Texas Loden Foto."
Date: unknown
Creator: Loden Foto
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of a Well Site]

Photograph of a well site, a wooden derrick and rig stand on the right side with a dog house in the center. The boiler house is on the left with a large chimney pipe emitting dark smoke, pipe casing is visible in the center foreground and an early model automobile is parked on the far left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Martin, W. P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Street in Colorado City]

Early street scenes of Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas. The streets are all dirt roads and the picture was shot in the street, and looks down through the town. Many buildings can be seen in the distance, and power lines run down the road into town. Caption on the image reads "Colorado, Texas Newsom Photo 27."
Date: 1922
Creator: Newsom Photo
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowded Street in Kilgore, Texas]

Postcard of a crowded street crowded with early model automobiles and mule-drawn wagons with small buildings visible in the background. The caption on the image reads: "just like this all day every day on the north side of the tracks in Kilgore, tex. 111 By Jack Nolan." The inscription (on back): "Kilgore, Aug. 24 Sure taking it easy - but have been sick a couple of days and am pretty weak in the knees yet. Kids are [illegible]. So is Ed. See you about the 1st. Helen."
Date: August 1931
Creator: Nolan, Jack
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ector County Courthouse]

Photograph of the Ector County Courthouse on the square surrounded by a fence. Early model automobiles are parked along the perimeter and the caption on the image reads "Ector County Court House Odessa Texas Jack Nolan 03."
Date: 1927
Creator: Nolan, Jack
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of People Outside of Crane Lots]

Photograph of numerous people (mostly men but women and children as well) in a dirt road next to a tin building which advertisers for Crane lots. The caption at the bottom reads, "JAN -1- CRANE CITY 15 DAYS OLD KEEP YOUR EYE ON CRANE".
Date: January 7, 1927
Creator: Nolan, Jack
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History