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[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

[Three Men with Horses]

Description: Photograph of three men with horses, two men sit astride horses on the right side of the image. Another man stands on the ground next to a bridled horse, a chuck wagon, with a team of mules, is on the left side of the image and additional horses (or cattle) stand among the men.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Portrait of a Man]

Description: Portrait of a man in a US Army uniform. He stands three-quarters facing facing to his right, His right hand is tucked inside the edge of his coat while his left hand is behind him. He has a full head of hair with a full beard.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Main Street Scene]

Description: Copy Print of a street scene. The dirt road is lined with buildings. A line of telephone or telegraph wires (with poles) line the left side. Numerous people are seen strolling the street while multiple wagons pulled by horses drive down the street or are parked along the sides. Caption on image reads: " Main Street Scene BIG SPRINGS, Texas B. REAGAN DRUGGIST."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Street in Desdemona, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a muddy street lined with stores and other buildings, the street is crowded with early model automobiles and people. Wooden derricks are visible in the background and the caption on the image reads "Desdemona, Texas 9/23/1919. Norris."
Date: September 23, 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.270843 -98.550608
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Odessa Medical Center Hospital]

Description: Postcard of a six story shopping center building that has eighteen windows on each story and smaller one story building attached in back. The windows on the both the large part of the building and the small part of the building face streets and meet up on a street corner with a wooden street lamp/phone line pole, with phone lines visible through the middle of the photo, and a one way arrow pointing to the left. The entrance is facing the one way street with a board that reads "Medical Center Ho… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Dexter Press Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Wooden Derrick and Rig]

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

[Oil Derrick Explosion]

Description: Photograph of a well fire engulfing a derrick. Men are seen on the right foreground running towards the camera. The caption on the photograph reads "Skelly-Amarada Univ. No. 1 Ector County Photo taken the instant the well burst into flames - Jack Nolan."
Date: April 26, 1930
Creator: Nolan, Jack
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

[Henderson Family at a Tank]

Description: Photograph of the Henderson family at a tank on a ranch in Ector County. Water is flowing into the pool from a pipe supported on wooden beams and Warren Henderson is visible at the edge of the tank, standing in the center of the image. Two women are also near the water, in the far left of the image, identified as Bethenia Henderson Gassaway (right) and an aunt. A wire fence is visible in the backround.
Date: 1909~/1910~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[River On A River]

Description: Copy of photo of a group of people (men, women, and children) sitting and standing on ferry on river. A large rope cuts across the image.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Postcard of Kermit, Texas]

Description: Postcard of a street in Kermit, Texas. The photograph has wide streets and cars on either side of the street. There is a store called "Wackers" on the right of the of the street, on the back of the postcard, Texas Highway 18-115 Kermit, Texas This street scene shows the modern, progressive, city of Kermit, Texas. Well known as a ranching area but with modern progress being spurred on by the oil industry. The Monohans Sandhills State Park is but a short drive to the South, also Big Bend National… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.857626 -103.092665
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[The Odessa Fire Department]

Description: Photograph of a fire truck in front of a line of men holding hoses which are spouting water towards a field. In the background, houses, a windmill and telephone poles are visible. The caption on the image reads "Odessa Texas Fire Department Photo by Jack Nolan."
Date: unknown
Creator: Nolan, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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