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[Alamo Refinery]

Description: Postcard of a refinery with numerous early model cars outside of it. The writing on the bottom left side reads: "Alamo Refinery. Whittenburg Tex."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Bakersfield Townsite Office]

Description: Photograph of a row of storefronts with early model automobiles parked in front. The first shop is the "Bakersfield Townsite Office" the other shop has "Coffee Shop" written on it. Several people are seen on the sidewalk between the buildings and the vehicles.
Date: 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Baptist Church in Midland Texas]

Description: Postcard of a Baptist church in Midland that has: a dome in the center on the highest area of building, a large arched stained glass window along wall in left side of building, a two story wing on the right side, an entrance a recessed window to the right of the arched stained glass window, and trees on grounds of church in front of building. The caption under the picture reads: "Baptist Church. Midland, Texas."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Base of an Cable Tool Rig]

Description: Postcard of the base of a large cable tool rig. The crew is posing in front of the wooden well and a train is visible in the background. On the back of the postcard, "Dear Brother, Your card recieved last week I don't no when I will get home we have got 550 ft to go yet. We have not had any rain up here yet. We had a good boxing match and a wrestling match here last night they wrestled two hours and forty minutes and nobody got a boll."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Beaumont Oil Field]

Description: Postcard of an oil field with smog over it numerous housing structures, wells, and derricks are visible. The print in the top left hand corner reads: " Oil Wells, Beaumont, Texas".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Beauregard Avenue in San Angelo]

Description: Postcard of a colorized image of a street scene labeled in the upper-right corner as "Beauregard Avenue, looking East, San Angelo, Texas." Horse-drawn wagons and carriages are parked along both sides of the street and some are driving in the center; a trolley is passing on a side street in the background. A letter is written on the back of the postcard, addressed to Tuise Tatro in Vermont: "Dear friend Luise, I am now at the place have been here for nearly a week came with a car load of sheep… more
Date: September 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 31.462436 -100.437096
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Block 47 Oil Field]

Description: Postcard of an oil field with four large cylindrical structure in the fore ground, a dirt ground and numerous oil derricks and houses in the mid ground, and numerous oil derricks and houses in the back ground. The print on the bottom of the front reads: ' Block 47, Buck Burnett Tex". The writing on the back reads: "Thru here Sat eve. 8pm. On way to Luvton. Sun - stayed in Luvton all night [Illegible]. H.O. Badger 5804 Anderson Kan City [illegible].
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Borger Street in Hutchinson County]

Description: Postcard of Borger Street, the image shows the street lined with storefronts and crowded with early model automobiles. The caption on the image reads "Borger, Texas -- World's Greatest Oil Field. Gayle W. Baker - Photo The Kodak Shop, Borger, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: The Kodak Shop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Building Below a Water Tower]

Description: Photograph of a water tower behind a small, one-story building with a sign that says, "Ward County Court House, City of Monahans City Hall and Fire Department." Two automobiles are parked in front of the building and some other buildings are partially visible on the left side of the image. A handwritten note on the back says, "Temporary court house at Monahans, Tex. Used while new Court House was being built."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Burk Waggoner Gusher]

Description: Postcard of a pipe on the left side with oil spewing from it into a pool of oil. The caption on the image reads: "Burk Wagon Gusher. 4200 Bbl Daily."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Burkburnett Oil Field]

Description: Postcard of the Burkburnett oil field, including a number of wooden derricks and small wooden buildings with a cloud of smoke or steam obscuring parts of the center of the image. The caption on the image reads "Burkburnett New Field Nov. 1-19 Kodak Shop."
Date: unknown
Creator: Kodak Shop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Burkburnett Oil Field]

Description: Postcard of the Burkburnett oil field in Wichita County, Texas, taken from ground level near a derrick. A number of wooden derricks are visible, with wooden housings and other small structures. Many of the derricks are partially obscured by smoke.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Business Section of Odessa, Texas]

Description: Reprint photograph of the business section of Odessa, Texas looking north from the corner of First Street and Grant Avenue. Buildings with various business signs line both sides of the road and early-model automobiles are parked along both sides of the street. The caption under the image reads "Business Section, Odessa, Texas."
Date: 1926?
Creator: Shoopman Commercial Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.844818 -102.367033
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Canadian River in Borger, Texas]

Description: Postcard image taken from a curving dirt road of several oil derricks in front of a river, between hills, labeled at the top as "View showing Canadian River and valley north of Borger, Texas." A note on the back is addressed to Betty in Iowa with the text "Dear Pal. card received and I want you to send me the [...] saved for me [...] use the rest for postage. Sincerely Mary Alice [Robeson], Box 537, Phillips, Texas."
Date: unknown
Creator: Robeson, Mary Alice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 35.736414 -101.419349
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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