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Mr. President: A Pictoral Parade of Presidents, 1789-1956
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["Woods #1", Oil Well]
Photograph of industrial implements around a large oil well in Midland, Texas. Notes on the back indicate that the well is being re-fracked. Numerous trucks loaded with equipment are piped to each other in front of the well. Caption on the back: "Woods #1 5/56 Re-Frac. 40,000 gals @ 3# sd. Cost about $12,000. Tubing standing in work-over rig. Dowells 6 or $800,000 worth of equipment Not all equipment shown 4-500 Bbl. tanks not shown. Tank batter right hand (upper corner." [sic]
Date:
May 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial of Downtown Midland, Wilco Building Construction]
Aerial photograph of downtown Midland facing the west, taken between 1956 and 1958. The Midland County Courthouse is visible at center right: a compact white building surrounded by a lawn and a parking lot. To the right (north) of the courthouse is the Petroleum Building and the McClintic Building (above the Petroleum Building; west). The large building under construction at left is the Wilco Building, its lower floors complete. Main Street spans along the far bottom of the image with its storefronts.
Date:
[1956..1958]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial of Downtown Midland, 1956]
Aerial photograph of Midland, Texas, in 1956, north facing up. The Midland County Courthouse, a small rectangular building, is visible right of center, with the Petroleum Building to the north, and Main Street to the southeast. East of the courthouse is the Wilco Building, currently under construction and half completed. Midland Senior High School, composed of two buildings along two city blocks, is to the northwest of the Wilco Building. Commercial buildings and parking lots occupy the blocks of the lower half of the image, while to the north there are more suburbs and smaller buildings.
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chester W. Nimitz Giving a Speech]
Photograph of Chester W. Nimitz standing at a wooden podium with a standing microphone beside it, giving speech at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is wearing a dark Naval Uniform with stripes on the sleeves, ribbon bars pinned above his pocket and a dark die. There is some type of palm or fern plant behind Chester Nimitz.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Logistical Cargo Carrier (Series LCC-1)
Photograph of a Logistical Cargo Carrier (Series LCC-1) at some type of exhibit of military vehicles and aircraft. According to author Eric Orlemann, the U.S. Army Transportation Corps requested the LCC-1 to re-supply the radar stations along the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line. Length of the train was 173 feet with a maximum rated 45-ton payload capacity.
Date:
1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transporter, off-road,with Tree Roller P0U,P-10-34, L 8459
Photograph of a LeTourneau Model C-6 Transporter carrying a tree roller. The transporter had six electric drive wheels and a load capacity of 35 tons, according to Eric C. Orlemann
Date:
September 7, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree Crusher,150 tons, P0U,P-10-34, V-1556
Photograph of the Series "G" Tree Crusher No. 5 model. According to Eric Orlemann, this unit had its two diesel-electric generator sets mounted side by side. The inscription on the side of the cab reads "LeTourneau Tree Crusher. Made by Mississippi Division of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc., Longview, Texas.
Date:
February 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tong Crane, Log Loader P0U,P-10-34, L 11455
Photograph of a Series "R" Log Loader, according to information from author Eric Orlemann. It was designed to load logs onto trucks for transit. Only three Series "R" Log Loaders were listed as being built.
Date:
September 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log stacker tong on Series "F" Log Stacker (Model C-4)
Photograph of the tong on Series "F" Log Stacker (Model C-4) shown picking up a log. According to author Eric Orlemann, LeTourneau got into the log-stacking business after selling the original company to Westinghouse in 1953 and agreeing not to build earthmoving equipment for five years. It proved to be highly successful. The log stackers were used all over North America as well as overseas.
Date:
October 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spar, mobile, P0U, P-10-34, L 11431
Photograph of the Series 90-S Mobile Spar. According to author Eric Orlemann, "the Mobile Spar was a diesel-electric transporter equipped with a folding 130-foot guy wire tower." It was built for hauling lumber up steep slopes. Only one unit was built and sold to a lumber company in McCall, Idaho.
Date:
September 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tong crane, P0U,P-10-34, L 11229
Photograph of a LeTourneau tong crane picking up an automobile as a man watches. The inscription on the front of the crane indicates the photograph was taken in Longview, Texas, which was the primary plant and headquarters of the company by 1956.
Date:
August 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Model C-6 Transporter, off-road
Photograph of a Model C-6 Transporter demonstrating its off-road capabilities. The Transporter was powered by a large 300-hp Buda Super Diesel engine, according to author Eric Orlemann. Its generator provided power to electric traction motors in all six wheels. Its load capacity was 35 tons.
Date:
April 6, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transporter, off-road,with log bunk
Photograph of a LeTourneau transporter with a log bunk. The original unit was built in 1955, according to author Eric Orlemann.
Date:
November 1, 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree Roller 20 foot wide 150 Ton, J5G, Photo 1, L-3835
Photograph of a Series "G" Tree Crusher manufactured at the Vicksburg plan. Author Eric Orlemann said this model was 20 feet wide and weighed 150 tons.
Date:
1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A34 tree crusher with hexagon shaped wheels at Stumpy Point J5G, 22205
Photograph of AN A34 tree crusher with hexagon shaped wheels at Stumpy Point.
Date:
February 1956
Creator:
R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[View of a Lake, Forest and Mountains]
Photograph of a forest, lake, and mountains in Wyoming. Clouds are dotting the sky above the mountains and the forest is expansive and runs to the foot of the mountain.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[View of Mountains From a Road]
Photograph of a mountain range and cloudy sky taken from an unpaved road. A second paved road lined with trees has two cars driving along it.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[View of Mountians From Across a Lake]
Photograph of a mountain range viewed from across a lake. The water of the lake reflects the mountains, sky, and the forest siting in between the lake and mountains.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rock Springs Center Lobby]
Photograph of a lobby inside the Rock Springs Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Two black couches with red cushions and white flower vases on both sides, backs facing each other, sit at the center of the image, with a white square coffee table visible in front with red wooden chairs adjoining it on a beige carpet. Two pairs of white tables with two white chairs each sit on the right side of the image, with a medium-sized tree in between. A Christmas tree is visible behind the couches. Windows, lined black, are visible on the southern and western sides of the room.
Date:
[1956..]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rose Garden, Looking Northeast, 1956]
Photograph of the Rose Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden in 1956, looking northeast. A large rectangular field of roses and shrubs on a flat plain of grass is prominent at center. A corner of the garden's former hedge maze is visible at bottom right. The covered pavilion of the Lower Rose Garden at the top of the "rose ramp" is located at middle right above the rose field, alongside a road where three cars are parked. The road goes into the background into an area of shrubs and large, tall trees.
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Visitors in Botanic Garden Maze]
Photograph of visitors in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden hedge maze. Three adults are accompanied by a child and walk along a hedge wall. An empty barrel and a small wooden covering is beside them. An advertisement billboard and a streetlight is visible behind the hedges. The former site of the hedge maze is currently occupied by the botanical garden's vegetable garden.
Date:
1956~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gene Clifford Jones Jr
Photograph of a young Gene Clifford Jones Jr.
Date:
April 25, 1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Kathryn Hoos Diamond
Kathryn Hoos Diamond, 1956 school picture.
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Interior of Guymon St. Stephen's Episcopal Mission
Interior of Lutheran Church building where the mission first met. The priest is at center front, in front of the dossal and cloth covered altar. The congregants are seated in wood pews. Information on back of photo states this is in Lutheran Church building. They bought and moved building in 1956 after being formed in 1952. May be Rev. Wood at altar.
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History