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[Oil Flowing from Humble Well]

Description: Photographic postcard picturing oil flowing out of a well. Written on the card, "Giant Humble well yields 428,000 bbls [barrels] oil in 42 days. Humble Well, Orange, Texas 3=788=731212" The oil flows from a pipe into a trough.
Date: 1920
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Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Men and a Dog by an Oil Derrick]

Description: Photograph of twelve men and a dog at the base of an oil derrick in Orangefield, Texas around 1920. The man 2nd from the left is Tom Toal, Sr., 7th from left is Oscar Winfree, 8th from left is Charlie Schriebner, 11th from left is Dave Craft. They worked for the Toal Independent Oil Company.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Ward Jaycox
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Partner: Heritage House Museum

Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Lignite Coal Bed]

Description: Photograph of 40-foot shields of a lignite coal bed on the San Miguel Creek on the Franklin Ranch, McMullen County. The property is owned by Donald Stephenson of Calliham, Texas.
Date: 1920
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Partner: Midwestern State University

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

[Oil Field in Burkburnett, Texas]

Description: Postcard of an oil field in Burkburnett and Wichita Falls. The inscription on the front reads "Oil a Mile Long in Block 96" and on the back "Mrs. J. L. Marshall 1100 Elgin Ave Muskogee, Okla. The image has an oil derrick in the background as well as a body of water running through the middle of the image.
Date: May 23, 1920
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Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Liquid-Fuel Burner.

Description: Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burner that generates gas from liquids that requires no labor or supervision.
Date: June 8, 1920
Creator: Bittner, Emil R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon burners that is inexpensive and can take refined oil or heavy crude oil and make it useable as fuel.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: St. Wrba, Joseph J.
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Tool Joint.

Description: Patent for a screw-threaded tool joint used for drill pipes on rotary drilling rigs.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Lyle, Henry Claude
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Pump-Plunger

Description: Patent for an improvement in Pump-Plungers. "It has a particular application to pumps of this character for use in oil or water wells where the liquid is mixed with sand" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1920
Creator: Mackenzie, Alexander S.
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Igniting Device.

Description: Patent for improvements in electrical ignitors that can be put over a gas burner and operated by the pressure of the gas flowing from the burner, which can ignite the gas.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Shuford, Carl H.
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Filter

Description: Patent for a filter for purifying gasoline or other oil used in cleaning establishments.
Date: November 2, 1920
Creator: Daniel, William A.
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Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for oil burners that is designed specifically for burning crude fuel oil that also has improved construction that centers the spray head with the burner head.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Booker, William B.
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Oiling System

Description: Patent for an oiling system that efficiently transports oil to the surface to be lubricated, and then returned to the reservoir.
Date: November 2, 1920
Creator: Reaugh, Frank
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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