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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Frieze on Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of an engraving on the Jefferson County courthouse. It shows two men, one kneeling and one standing, working on an oil rig, which is visible in the background. The words "Wonders of Today" are carved under the picture.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bell, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell

[Photograph of Oil Well Fire in Port Arthur, Texas, September 13, 1902]

Description: Photograph of an oil well fire, with smoke roiling into the sky as eighteen men look on. A tank to the left of the blaze is itself giving off smoke. Industrial materials litter the foreground, and two intact oil rigs can be seen in the background. On the reverse side, there is a handwritten passage stating "Kieths Ward Fire - Texas Gusher throwing 200 ft and Higgins 10000 barrel Pressure Tank."
Date: September 13, 1902
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Postcard of Oil Wells In Beaumont]

Description: Postcard of many oil wells in a field, behind a couple of red and white shacks. The back of the postcard has a note that reads, "Hello Mamie. Yes you guessed right. I know another one. Which I will tell you later on. Write me soon, Sig." The postcard is addressed to "Miss Mamie McFaddin 1141 3rd Ave. Huntington, W. Va."
Date: July 30, 1907
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum
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[News Clip: Oil well on college campus]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont giving up their baseball field to Stanolind oil company for drilling.
Date: July 2, 1953
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Well-Drilling Rig.

Description: Patent, including illustrations, for "an improved well drilling rig or apparatus" which provides "a simple, efficient, and practical machine of this kind including revoluble means having a device operatively connected to a walking beam (from which a drilling tool is suspended), so that upon every complete revolution of the revoluble means, the drilling tool or bit will be given two direct drops, each alternating with the lifting movement of the drill bit" (page 1, lines 11-21).
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Bradford, Robert M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve For Oil Wells

Description: Patent for a valve for oil wells. This invention is designed to control the flow of oil during drilling. Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Bernard, Horace D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump.

Description: Patent for an improved pump valve designed for a pump for pumping oil from oil wells "which will not be affected by the fluid or gas pressure in the bore" (lines 17-18).
Date: September 30, 1919
Creator: Graf, Sydney H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drilling-Machine

Description: Patent for a rotary drilling machine for drilling oil wells that has a stronger grip than previous drills.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Black, Lee J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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