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

[Traveling Men in Ranger, Texas]

Description: Postcard of a muddy street scene in Ranger, Texas. The street is lined with storefronts that appear muddy and a man controls the reigns of two horses pulling a platform on which three men ride. The caption on the image reads "Traveling Men Ferry Boating in Ranger, Tx. 1919."
Date: 1919
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Man Holding a Torpedo]

Description: Photograph of a man holding a nitro-shoot torpedo. The camera is looking up and a metal derrick is visible towering above the man's head. The inscription on the back reads "Preparing to drop torpedo loaded with nitroglycerin into borehole. This is an earlier method of stimulating a well to increase production."
Date: unknown
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Man in Front of a Canvas Tent]

Description: Postcard of a man standing in the foreground in front of a large canvas tent. A derrick stands in the background directly behind the man. The caption on the image reads "In the oil field" and "Tate Photo Laredo #685."
Date: unknown
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Men Posing In Front Of Ditching Machine]

Description: Postcard of two men posing in front of ditching machine in a field to the right, two men on top of the machine: one is in the drivers seat and the other is on the left side, and a woman behind it wearing a light-colored.dress and a hat is partially visible on right side of machine.
Date: unknown
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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Tom Lovell: Storyteller With a Brush

Description: Video discussing the 14 paintings by by western artist Tom Lovell of Santa Fe (1909-1997) made under commission by The Abell-Hanger Foundation to describe the cultural history of the Permian Basin area. It includes autobiographical clips of Lovell describing his work.
Date: 1995
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Men with Horses

Description: Copy negative of geologists standing next to their saddled horses. Both men are in boots and hats, and rocky hills are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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