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[Wooden Derrick and Rig]

Description: Photograph of a wooden derrick and rig. Steel cords are attached to the derrick and anchored into the ground and there are several bushes around the sparse landscape.
Date: 1958
Creator: Shoopman, Bill
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Photograph of a Well Site]

Description: Photograph of a well site, a wooden derrick and rig stand on the right side with a dog house in the center. The boiler house is on the left with a large chimney pipe emitting dark smoke, pipe casing is visible in the center foreground and an early model automobile is parked on the far left.
Date: unknown
Creator: Martin, W. P.
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
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Photograph of a Cable Tool Rig]

Description: Photograph of a wooden cable tool rig with water spewing up the derrick. The inscription on the back reads "82-13.33 Classen Badgett No.1 Sept. 30th '22 Showing water coming out of 10" casing - turning to brine. Mitchell Co Texas W. J. Classen photographer."
Date: September 30, 1922
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[Man on Top of an Oil Rig]

Description: Postcard of a wooden derrick with three men sitting on the derrick's crown block. On the ground, oil field equipment and small buildings are visible. Several derricks are visible in the background and the caption on the image reads "Derrick Toppers."
Date: unknown
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
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
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame
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