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[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
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Cosden Refinery at Big Springs, Texas]

Description: Photograph of four trucks belonging to the O. H. McAllister Trucking Company, headquartered at Odessa in the early 1930's. This is a scene at the Cosden Refinery at Big Springs, Texas showing the unloading of fuel oil from tanks, which caught fire and set the McAllister trucks on fire.
Date: 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Cotton Scene at Big Springs, Texas]

Description: Photograph of numerous bales of cotton with loaded wagons in the background. Several men stand near or on the loaded wagons. Multiple buildings are visible in the far background. The caption on the image reads "Cotton Scene BIG SPRINGS, Texas B. REAGAN DRUGGIST."
Date: 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Cowboy Riding a Horse]

Description: Photograph of a cowboy riding on a bucking horse. There is another man behind him also on a horse. Written below the photograph is "Hook'im Cowboy - Why don' the darn thing buck? Jack Nolan."
Date: August 5, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Desdemona, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a street scene in Desdemona, Texas. The image shows a line of long horn cattle walking down a muddy street with houses and wooden derricks visible in the background. The caption on the image reads "Desdemona 8/22/19 - Texas."
Date: August 22, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Drilling Rig]

Description: Photograph of a drilling rig with a hill in the background and several trees in the forefront of the picture.
Date: unknown
Creator: Roberts, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Early Model Automobile]

Description: Copy print of two early automobiles inside garage. Two men sit in the center of the central vehicle while another man stands immediately behind it. A fourth man is visible next to another vehicle in the background on the right side.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Photography, Shoopman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Ector County Court House]

Description: Postcard of a picture, possibly a drawing, that was created with bright colors, of a Court House that has a well groomed lawn and is rectangular and four stories, the three lower floors have windows and are larger than the fourth floor there are etchings in the stone on both sides of the clock that is above the wood door at the entrance. On the fourth floor "Ector County Court House is etched into the building." The print on the top right side reads: "Beautiful Modern Ector County Court House, … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Tichnor Bros., Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Eddy County Courthouse]

Description: Postcard of the front (south) of a multi-story courthouse built in southwest-style architecture in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The print on the top left side reads: "Eddie County Courthouse Calsbad, New Mexico. This building is in the traditional style of the Southwest Indian -Spanish Pueblo, more commonly called 'Santa Fe' style."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 32.420433 -104.228074
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Family Outside of Tent]

Description: Print of a family standing outside of a tent. There are two women, one man, one boy, and two dogs. One dog on the left sits on a wooden chair while the other one on the right stands in front of one of the sons. In the background, a table with bowls and pots is visible. A stovepipe is visible behind one woman who stands in the center.
Date: 1908~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Fort Davis]

Description: Postcard of a black and white picture of about eleven houses in a row with a large hill behind the houses covered in trees and dirt road in front of the houses. The writing on the bottom reads: "Old Fort Davis and Sleeping Lion Mountain - Fort Davis, Texas. 6-P-279."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 30.597816 -103.891020
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[A Frontier Home]

Description: Postcard of a frontier home with two men and a woman in front of it with a stove on the left and a long horn cow with it's head in a large wooden feed tub. The writing on the left of the picture reads: "Copyright 1907 by Geo. B. Cornish, Arkansas City, Kans." The writing on the right reads "A Frontier Home."
Date: 1907~
Creator: Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Geronimo and U.S. guards on horseback]

Description: Postcard of Geronimo, Apache Chief, and five U.S. Guards all on horseback in a grassy field. The writing in the middle of photo reads: "Geronimo, Alpache Chief, and U.S. Guard." The writing on the left says: "Copy write. 1907. By G. B Cornish. Arkansas City, Kansas."
Date: 1907~
Creator: Cornish, G. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Group of Crane City Citizens]

Description: Photograph of numerous people standing in a dirt street, a small building is seen on the left side. The caption on the image reads "Jan -7- Crane City - 15 Days Old Keep Your Eye on Crane."
Date: January 7, 1927
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Group of People with a Chuck Wagon]

Description: Photograph of several people, including three women and a young boy, near a chuck wagon. Several horses are seen in the background and one man is kneeling in the foreground with two buckets looking directly into the camera.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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