Rescuing Texas History, 2007 - 3 Matching Results

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[Oil Flowing from Humble Well]

Description: Photographic postcard picturing oil flowing out of a well. Written on the card, "Giant Humble well yields 428,000 bbls [barrels] oil in 42 days. Humble Well, Orange, Texas 3=788=731212" The oil flows from a pipe into a trough.
Date: 1920
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Poscard of Scrivner's Store

Description: Postcard showing E.H. Scrivner, owner and proprietor of Scrivner's Store in Paul's Valley Oklahoma, shaking hands with himself. The store is covered with various signs.
Date: June 29, 1929
Partner: Private Collection of Charles R. Delphenis

[Postcard of The Great White Way - Spring Street]

Description: Postcard taken c. 1925 of Spring Street, a street that was once knicknamed "The Great White Way" because of the streetlights running down the center of the street. Note the train depot on the right and the business on the left.
Date: 1925~
Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission
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