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[Street Intersection]
Photograph of a street intersection with storefronts in the background with early model automobiles lined in front. The caption on the image reads "Street Scene Big Lake Tex."
Date:
1927
Creator:
unknown
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1925 Dodge]
Photograph of a 1925 Dodge parked among a desert like landscape with yucca plants.
Date:
1927
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Rig]
Photograph of the Santa Rita No. 1 oil rig with a group of men (five visible) standing in the foreground.
Date:
June 10, 1923
Creator:
unknown
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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Texon Oil & Land Co.'s General Office]
Photograph of a single-story building, the caption on the image reads "Texon Oil & Land Co.'s General Office, Santa Rita, Texas. Sept. 1st, 1925. Photo by Whidden, San Angelo."
Date:
September 1, 1925
Creator:
Whidden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Santa Rita No. 1 Rig]
Photograph of an oil rig with a structure underneath it. On the back of the photograph, "Anton Theis, Source (through George T. ABell) Reagan County, Texas Santa Rita No. 1 Probably about June, 1923 when the Orient Railway sent special excursion trains from San Angelo to Santa Rita No. 1 for passengers to see the well blowing heads. (Note: See the cars, automobiles to the left background and also see the passenger cars from railway to the right background)."
Date:
1923
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Homer Colquitt, Dean Wolf, O. C. Harper and Feliciano Chavez]
Photograph of Homer Colquitt, Dean Wolf, and O. C. Harper, the four men stand in a row in front of an adobe brick building. Slightly behind them, there is a chuckwagon to the left and an early model automobile to the right. Dean Wolf, on the left, wears a dark shirt and pants tucked into calf-high boots. A gun in a holster is slung around his hips and a newsboy cap sits on his head while his hands are behind him. Homer Colquitt wears a jacket over a shirt with a bow tie and dark pants, a fedora style hat sits on his head. O. C. Harper stands close to him, on his left and wears a jacket over a dark shirt and pants tucked into calf-high laced boots. A newsboy cap sits on his head. Feliciano Chavez wears a loose fitting shirt and pants with a cap on his head.
Date:
1923
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Billowing Smoke]
Photograph of large billowing smoke, rising from the ground. A windmill with a tank and a piece of heavy equipment are visible in the foreground. The caption on the image reads, "Tank Farm Fire Midland, Texas 5-17-'28."
Date:
May 17, 1928
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Drilling Crew]
Photograph of a drilling crew on the wooden rig of T. B. Slick's Sheppared No. 6 well site in Eastland, Texas. The caption on the image reads "T. B. Slick's Sheppard #6 Pioneer, Tex."
Date:
1920~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Two Men and a Stradia Rod]
Photograph of two men standing on either side of a stradia rod. They are between a tall century plant on the left and their early model automobile on the right. The man on the left wears a newsboy-style cap with a plaid shirt and pants. He has a pair of binoculars around his neck and his left hand holds the stradia rod up. The man on the right also wears a plaid shirt and pants which are tucked into calf-high laced boots and his hands hang at his sides. They are located on a barren, desert-like landscape.
Date:
1926
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History