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Explosion

Description: Photograph of a controlled explosion, called a "land shot", in the Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast region during the late 1920s. A large cloud of smoke and dust rises into the air.
Date: 1928~
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[Family Outside of Tent]

Description: Print of a family standing outside of a tent. There are two women, one man, one boy, and two dogs. One dog on the left sits on a wooden chair while the other one on the right stands in front of one of the sons. In the background, a table with bowls and pots is visible. A stovepipe is visible behind one woman who stands in the center.
Date: 1908~
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[The Famous Guffy Gas Well]

Description: Postcard of the wreckage of the rig after a gas blowout of the now famous Guffy Gas Well in Corpus Christi, Texas. At the bottom of the well there is a pile of wood with the gas erupting out. The caption on the image reads "The Famous Guffy Gas Well, Corpus Christi, Texas."
Date: 1915
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[Fort Davis]

Description: Postcard of a black and white picture of about eleven houses in a row with a large hill behind the houses covered in trees and dirt road in front of the houses. The writing on the bottom reads: "Old Fort Davis and Sleeping Lion Mountain - Fort Davis, Texas. 6-P-279."
Date: unknown
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Location: 30.597816 -103.891020

[Four Men Around a Pump Valve]

Description: Photograph of four men standing around a pump valve with a metal storage tank in the background. All four men wear hard hats, the man on the left is wearing a light colored shirt and pants and holds a clipboard of documents in his hands in front of him. The man next to him is wearing a white shirt and dark pants, he is looking towards the valve. On the right, a man in overalls and another in a white shirt and black pants looks towards the men on the left.
Date: 1965
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[Four Men Around a Well Hole]

Description: Photograph of four men around a well hole, one appears to be holding a hose. The inscription on the back reads "Washing over a diamond core bit prior to removing the core that is inside the core barrel. Diamond core bit being washed above rotary table. UT Archives. Image used for Walter Rundell's book Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin."
Date: unknown
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[Four Men Posing with a Pipe]

Description: Photograph of four men posing next to a pipe that is ready to be lowered into a ditch. More crew members are visible in the ditch and derricks are visible in the background. The caption under the image reads "The following written on back of original: 'Just a sample of Pick and shovel crew digging pipe line ditch -- and this is not the worst, by far.'"
Date: unknown
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