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Oil Derrick

Description: Copy negative of two pictures an oil derrick during the Ranger, Texas oil boom. The picture on the left is of the base of an oil well, men working, and equipment around it in a field. The picture on the right shows the whole tower of the well, the small building at its base, men working, and equipment.
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Cause No. 11687: Oral Deposition of B. C. McDonald, October 17, 1925]

Description: Document in cause no. 11687, Jake L. Hamon Jr. vs. United States Torpedo Company, transcribing the deposition of B. C. McDonald. McDonald recounts his recollections regarding the shooting of an oil well by J. H. Rapp in Eastland County, Texas. There is a receipt from the United States Torpedo Company included in the document.
Date: October 17, 1925
Creator: Cunningham, Tom J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from John Sayles to Jake L. Hamon Jr., January 27, 1929]

Description: Letter from John Sayles to Jake L. Hamon Jr. stating their best option for compromise in the case of Hamon and Ellis vs. U. S. Torpedo Company. Sayles states their greatest difficulty in the case will be proving negligence on the part of Jack Rapp. Sayles discusses different costs for damages of the oil well.
Date: January 27, 1929
Creator: Sayles, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Cause No. 11687: Deposition of J. H. Rapp]

Description: Document in cause no. 11687, Jake L. Hamon Jr. vs. United States Torpedo Company, transcribing the deposition of Jack H. Rapp. Rapp's testimony discusses his association with the United States Torpedo Company and his shooting of an oil well in Eastland County, Texas.
Date: October 16, 1925
Creator: Cunningham, Tom J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Cause No. 5641: Statement of Facts]

Description: Document in the cause no. 5641, L. W. Hilgenburg vs. Independent Torpedo Company, including the "Statement of the Plaintiff's Cause of Action in the Cause," and the testimony of L. W. Hilgenburg. The case relates to damage following shooting the oil wells of Hilgenburg.
Date: February 11, 1926
Creator: Ward, J. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Cause No. 11687: Plaintiff's Second Original Petition]

Description: Document in cause no. 11687, Jake L. Hamon, Jr. and Frank R. Ellis vs. United States Torpedo Company, describing Hamon and Ellis's complaints of the torpedo company and listing the damages they claim they are entitled to. The suit regards damage to Hamon's and Ellis's oil well in Eastland County, Texas caused by a representative of the United States Torpedo Company.
Date: 1925~
Creator: Sayles & Sayles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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