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[Bakersfield Townsite Office]

Description: Photograph of a row of storefronts with early model automobiles parked in front. The first shop is the "Bakersfield Townsite Office" the other shop has "Coffee Shop" written on it. Several people are seen on the sidewalk between the buildings and the vehicles.
Date: 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Street in Colorado City]

Description: Early street scenes of Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas. The streets are all dirt roads and the picture was shot in the street, and looks down through the town. Many buildings can be seen in the distance, and power lines run down the road into town. Caption on the image reads "Colorado, Texas Newsom Photo 27."
Date: 1922
Creator: Newsom Photo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.388174 -100.864558

[Postcard of Yates Ranch]

Description: Postcard of ranch buildings with an oil derrick and power lines in the background. An early model automobile is parked between the buildings in the center of the image and the caption on the image reads "THE OLD HOME-STEAD, YATES RANCH, NOW CENTER OF LARGEST OIL FIELD IN THE U. S. A. (DOUBLEDAY)."
Date: 1927
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[Photograph of a Camp Town]

Description: Photograph of an aerial view of a camp town with rows of small houses. The caption under the image reads "Camp #1 M-K O&G Co. looking North." The inscription on the back reads "82-4.5 Ivy #5 Camp #1, looking north toward Iraan, Texas Pecos County. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. 1928."
Date: 1928
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Business Section of Odessa, Texas]

Description: Reprint photograph of the business section of Odessa, Texas looking north from the corner of First Street and Grant Avenue. Buildings with various business signs line both sides of the road and early-model automobiles are parked along both sides of the street. The caption under the image reads "Business Section, Odessa, Texas."
Date: 1926?
Creator: Shoopman Commercial Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.844818 -102.367033

[Photograph of the Santa Rita No. 1 Rig]

Description: 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
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[The Landreth Strip]

Description: Postcard of "The Landreth Strip" in Crane County. In the forefront, there is a large, round metal building with "769" printed on the side. In the background, there is a row of oil derricks extending on into the unforeseeable distance. The caption on the image reads, "The Famous Landreth Strip Crane County Texas Jack Nolan Photo."
Date: 1927
Creator: Nolan, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Winkler County Oil Fields]

Description: Post card of producing oil wells in the Winkler County oil fields with four oil derricks visible. The caption reads: "Westbrook Discovery now Southern Crude Gulf. Winkler County Oil Field. Jan. 12, 27. Small ranches and lots of owners will tend to make fast development in this field. Souther Crude #2. Independent Oil & Gas Co. Jack Nolan Photo."
Date: January 12, 1927
Creator: Nolan, Jack
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[Ector County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the Ector County Courthouse on the square surrounded by a fence. Early model automobiles are parked along the perimeter and the caption on the image reads "Ector County Court House Odessa Texas Jack Nolan 03."
Date: 1927
Creator: Nolan, Jack
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[The Main Drag]

Description: Postcard of muddy street lined with store fronts, numerous people are visible walking along either side of the road, several wooden derricks are visible in the background. The caption on the Image reads "- The Main Drag - New Town. 200 [circled]" The inscription (on back): "February 16,1920. Dear Mamma, I have written every week. I am not sick. Last week I waded waist deep across a pond of icy water, didn't get to change clothes for four hours and all it did was make my nose run. I have been ta… more
Date: February 16, 1920
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard

[Photograph of Homer Colquitt, Dean Wolf, O. C. Harper and Feliciano Chavez]

Description: 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… more
Date: 1923
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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