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[Oil Wells at Spindletop]

Description: Photograph of a large number of oil wells at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[View of Spindletop]

Description: Photograph of a view of oil wells at Spindletop. Multiple oil wells can be seen that continue off into the distance. Writing on the back of the photograph, which is a postcard, reads, "Spindletop 1925."
Date: 1925
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

Orangefield Oil Field in 1927

Description: Photograph of the Orangefield Oil Field. In the foreground are pipes with wheel cranks and a wooden bridge on the top of two tanks with a large tank behind that. On the ground on the right side of the frame are many fat and skinny pipes lined up. In the background are numerous spindletops.
Date: May 31, 1927
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Oil Field in Beaumont, Texas, 1901

Description: Photograph of very many derricks in an oil field. In the foreground are wooden shacks, stacks of wooden boards, smokestacks with smoke plumes rising out of them. In the bottom right-hand corner is the name, "Trost".
Date: 1901
Creator: Trost Studio
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Lucas Gusher, 1901

Description: Photograph of the Lucas gusher in 1901. The Lucas gusher is a spindletop that is gushing oil out of the top of it. On the ground surrounding the spindletop are several workers, two holding a large hose.
Date: 1901
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Max Goldfine and Wife During Oil Boom

Description: Photograph of Max Goldfine standing next to his wife. He is wearing denim pants and a button-up shirt and she is wearing a skirt, blouse, and apron. Behind them are two buggies pulled by six horses and six workers. Behind that are six oil spindletops and trees. Typed and taped on the bottom of the mat is, "Max Goldfine family in Orangefield during boom. They operated a dry goods store."
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Photograph of "Glomar Challenger"]

Description: Photograph of the "Glomar Challenger," a ship on a body of water. The ship has a spindletop on it, used for drilling oil. Painted on the side of the ship is, "Glomar Challenger".
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

A Docked Oil Rig

Description: Photograph of a large oil rig with a spindletop docked on a river bank. There is a small boat in front of it. In the foreground is a river bank and next to the rig is a shed with wooden beams outside of it.
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Photograph of Mamie McFaddin Ward at Spindletop Museum]

Description: Photograph of Mamie McFaddin Ward wearing a pink patterned dress and looking at an exhibit of metal machinery at the Spindletop Museum, with a large photo of the Spindletop gusher on the wall behind her.
Date: [1960..1982]
Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

Oil Wells

Description: Copy negative of two images. The photograph on the left shows an oil spindletop with several workers standing beneath it. The photograph on the right shows an oil spindletop from a distance.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Man at Lucas Gusher Site]

Description: Photograph of a man standing in a field at Lucas Gusher site with many oil derricks across the skyline behind him.
Date: November 1939
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of Daily Enterprise Newspaper Page]

Description: Photograph of a page from the Daily Enterprise newspaper, highlighting an article entitled "A Geyser of Oil," which announces the spouting of oil from Spindletop oil well. Other ads are also visible on the page.
Date: January 10, 1901
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of Sheep at Lucas Gusher Site]

Description: Photograph of sheep in a field at the Lucas Gusher site, with oil derricks in the background.
Date: November 1939
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of Newspaper Article, "A Geyser of Oil"]

Description: Photograph of a page from the Daily Enterprise newspaper, highlighting an article entitled "A Geyser of Oil," which announces the spouting of oil from Spindletop oil well.
Date: January 10, 1901
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of Lucas Gusher Site]

Description: Photograph of Lucas Gusher site, a field with an oil derrick in the distance.
Date: 1945~
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of The Beaumont Journal Page]

Description: Photograph of a page from The Beaumont Journal with an article about Spindletop entitled "An Oil Geyser."
Date: January 10, 1901
Creator: Fisher, Larry Jene
Partner: Lamar University

[Photograph of an Oil Gusher]

Description: Photograph of an oil gusher at Spindletop Oil Field in Beaumont, Texas. People stand on the ground around the gusher.
Date: unknown
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Transport of Offshore Drilling Rig]

Description: Photograph of an offshore drilling rig, J. Storm VII, being sailed to sea from Port Arthur, TX. The pillars that will support the platform are towering above the rig.
Date: unknown
Creator: Christopher Studio
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Derrick at Spindletop Oil Field]

Description: Photograph of a wooden derrick at the Spindletop oil field in Beaumont, Texas. The derrick is located behind a chain-link fence with barbed wire and is surrounded by various equipment. Several support tethers are attached to the tower.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lewis, David P.
Partner: Lamar University
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