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[Teet's Club]

Description: Photograph of Teet's Club in downtown Port Arthur, TX. The club has signs advertising liquor and beer. The building is two stories with white walls. The front is a double door, with octagonal windows on both sides. All the windows have neon lights advertising various services and drinks the club offers.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Additive Unit]

Description: Photograph of storage tanks for petroleum additives at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. There are two tanks. Both are atop high metal scaffolding. Many pipelines and tanks are underneath the tanks for routing of the chemicals. Several workers wearing hard hats are working beneath the scaffolding.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Airplane]

Description: Photograph of an airplane belonging to Texaco Oil Company. The plane is in a large, open field with its propellers moving. The 14-passenger plane was used to fly passengers between the Texaco Airport and Port Arthur in the 1930's. Accompanying information states that the plane crashed in the late 30's, killing five men, including the pilot and oil company manager.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Island]

Description: Photograph of the Texaco Island in Port Arthur, TX. Several tankers are at dock on the island. Storage tanks for petroleum products are on the shore. The Intracoastal Waterway is running through the Murphree Wildlife Management Area. All the waterways lead to the top of the picture, where the Gulf of Mexico is visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Laboratory Expansion]

Description: Photograph of a Texaco (Texas Company) plant in Port Arthur, Texas, consisting of several long buildings set around an inner square. The expansion area is to the left with large piles of dirt and noticeable rectangular sections where buildings are to be constructed. Tanks for storage of petroleum products are in the far right background.
Date: 1969
Creator: Watkins Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Laboratory Expansion]

Description: Photograph of Texaco Island on the Sabine-Neches Canal in Port Arthur, Texas. The island is covered in petroleum storage containers and several large tankers are in dock in the water behind the island. Tugboats are also pushing barges through the entrance into the canal.
Date: July 1967
Creator: Watkins Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Lumber Shipping Dock]

Description: Photograph of the lumber shipping dock on Texaco Island in Port Arthur, TX. A ship is docked to the left of the dock. Past the dock is a row of buildings with several smokestacks. More ships and boats are docked near this area. Large piles of lumber are on the dock next to a large grouping of railroad tracks and several large boxcars.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Paraffin Plant]

Description: Photograph of the Texaco Refinery in 1903. Several buildings have smokestacks. The refinery appears to still have areas in the construction stages and is very small. In the background, tall petroleum storage tanks can be seen. The photograph caption reads, "This was the way Texaco looked in 1903 in Port Arthur."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Paraffin Plant]

Description: Photograph of the first battery of coke stills at the Port Arthur Texaco Refinery. The stills are part of a paraffin plant extension. The entire area is still in construction stages. The brick supports for the paraffin tanks are not yet complete. Piles of lumber, bricks, stone, and other raw building materials are lying around the tanks. Several workers are shoveling materials into the back of a mule-drawn cart.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Plant Personnel Showers]

Description: Photograph of the personnel showers at the Texaco plant in Port Arthur, TX. The showers are very simple. The floor is concrete and the walls are wooden planks. A single pipe is protruding up from the floor and connects to another pipe which has four shower heads. A small space heater is outside the shower to the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Service Station]

Description: Photograph of a Texaco Service Station on the southeast corner of Procter Street and Beaumont Avenue. There are gas pumps and a car under an awning. A round sign at the corner of the station says "Texaco," and has a star-shaped logo with a "T" in the star. In the background, there are other businesses.
Date: 1938
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[The Texas Company]

Description: Photograph of a group of men posing outside of The Texas Company. A sign on the front of the building says "The Texas Company." Four men are standing on a stairway leading to a door below the sign. In front of the building, there are several men sitting in a car.
Date: 193X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texas Company Employee Picnic]

Description: Photograph of Pleasure Pier in Port Arthur, TX. A large number of people are in the amusement park for Texaco's annual employee picnic. A single road leads from the amusement park to the city beyond. A prominent feature is the large roller coaster on the left. Cars are parked in large lots to either side of the amusements and also along the street leading to town.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texas Company Paraffin Plant]

Description: Photograph of the second battery of coking stills at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The battery consists of four large stills. In front of the stills is a box labeled with the Texaco star emblem and the words, "Union Line." A set of acetylene torches is to the front of the boxcar. Something to the far right is emitting smoke or steam.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texas Company Refinery]

Description: Photograph of the front of the Texas Company refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The sign on the building reads, "The Texas Company." Several people are standing at the top of a short stairwell near an open door. Several more are in a vehicle parked in front of the stairwell.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texas Library Association Conference]

Description: Photograph of two men and three women at a Texas Library Association (T. L. A.) conference. From the left to right, the people are identified as Z. T. Fortescue (Superintendent of Port Arthur Independent School District), Buster Crow (Port Arthur Mayor), Arless B. Nixon (T. L. A. President), the Assistant Librarian of San Antonio Library, and Pearle Burr (Tyrell Public Library). In the background, there is a group of people on board "Ava," a Texaco Company yacht.
Date: 1948
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texas State Highway 365]

Description: Photograph of the Texas State Highway 365 area in Port Arthur, TX. Wallings Dairy is visible near the bottom of the picture. In the center top, an area is being cleared to construct the new Stonegate neighborhood.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Thomas Brothers Cafe]

Description: Photograph of four men at Thomas Brothers Cafe on 610 Austin Avenue. Three of the men are identified as Apostolos Thomas (founder), Ted Menis, and Gus Thomas. Two of the men are standing behind the counter and two men are standing in front of it. In the foreground, there is a cash register sitting on a display case filled with items. In the background, there is a door.
Date: 193X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Thomas Edison Junior High]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of Thomas Edison Junior High on 3400 Tenth Street. The building is surrounded by fields. In the foreground and background, there are houses. Thomas Edison Junior High was built in 1929, and later changed to Thomas Jefferson High School in 1933. A new high school was built on Jefferson Drive in 1959, so it was changed back to Thomas Edison Junior High.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.903671 -93.919704
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Thomas Jefferson High School]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of Thomas Jefferson High School on Jefferson Drive. In the foreground, there are tennis courts and a football field, with a parking lot separating the two. In the background, there are buildings. Thomas Jefferson High School was opened in 1959.
Date: September 10, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Thomas Jefferson High School]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of a brick building identified as Thomas Jefferson High School. Trees and bushes surround the building. Text below the photograph says "abt 1948 Thomas Jefferson High School."
Date: 1948
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Thomas Jefferson High School Marching Band]

Description: Photograph of Thomas Jefferson High School marching band standing in a block formation on a football field. They are wearing uniforms and posing in nine rows while holding instruments. The front row consists of all women wearing uniforms with skirts, and every other woman is holding a baton. In the background, there is a set of bleachers.
Date: 194?
Creator: J. C. Watkins Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Tombstone of Child]

Description: Photograph of the headstone of the child with the first birth and first death in Port Arthur, TX. It is located on DeQueen Blvd. at the intersection of Lakeshore Drive. The grave site is surrounded by foliage. A cactus is growing on the grave. A small, wooden fence is around the stone and grave. The stone reads, "Arthur Stilwell/Smith/Born Mary 1896/Died May 1896/First Birth/First Death/in/Port Arthur."
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library
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