Tank on Street

Negative of a U. S. Army tank rolling down a street lined with families for a military parade in Odessa, Texas in 1956.
Date: 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Military Parade

Negative of a U. S. Army personnel carrier rolling down a street lined with families for a military parade in Odessa, Texas in 1956.
Date: 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plane in Sky

Negative of an airplane flying over Odessa, Texas during a military parade in 1956.
Date: 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Airplane Flying

Negative of an airplane flying over Odessa, Texas during a military parade in 1956. The building on the left side of the picture is the Ector County courthouse.
Date: 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wooden Derrick and Rig]

Photograph of a wooden derrick and rig. Steel cords are attached to the derrick and anchored into the ground and there are several bushes around the sparse landscape.
Date: 1958
Creator: Shoopman, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men Working on Pipeline]

Photograph of men working on a pipeline. Four men stand next to a large pipe, behind the pipe is a tractor to assist.
Date: 1950~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Oil Wells]

Postcard of seven oil derricks surrounding a church. The writing across the bottom front reads: "Drilling Oil Wells in Church yard. Kilgore, Texas". There is a note on the back sent from Sylvia to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Van Norman in Nickerson, Kansas.
Date: July 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Pump Jack on Small Hill]

Photograph of a pum jack on a small hill. Vegetation is in the foreground.
Date: 1950~
Creator: Shoopman, Bill
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Old Spudding Unit]

Photograph of an old spudding unit photographed in 1958 between Kermit and Wink by Bill Shoopman, Odessa photographer.
Date: 1958~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Men with a Valve]

Photograph of two men kneeling next to a valve with the ground soaked with oil or water.
Date: 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History