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[Street Scene of Ranger, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a street scene in Ranger, Texas. There are several horse drawn carriages and people crowded in the middle of a busy street. There are local stores and businesses visible in the background. Printed on the bottom of the photograph is, "End of the Rainbow", "Fields of Liquid Gold", and "Ranger, Texas".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Railroad Station in Ranger, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a large crowd of people waiting outside of a train station. A large building and train tracks are visible in the photograph. Handwritten at the top of the photograph is, "L. Swagerty: R.R. Station at Ranger, Tex during oil boom of 1918". Typed on the back of the photograph is, "Ten times a day, trains of the Texas & Pacific Line pulled into Ranger to disgorge their load of passengers who had packed the coach seats, stood in the aisles and, in some cases, ridden atop the cars".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Ranger, Texas Police Force

Description: Photograph of the Ranger, Texas Police Force. There are seventeen men total, three are seated and four standing on the porch and ten are lined up in front of the porch. The four men standing on the porch are wearing suits, hats, vests and neckties. The rest of the men are wearing dark police uniforms with shiny buttons, vests, hats, collared shirts and bow ties or neckties. Three of the men have large mustaches. George Cooper, the Police Chief, is seated in the center.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Methodist Conference at Rising Star]

Description: [Methodist Conference at Rising Star near Erath County.] Information provided: The man circled in the picture is identified as James Robert Mace who lived from 11-22-1851 to 3-14-1940. According to his obituary, he was a Steward in the Methodist Church for 67 years and was married to Lida Maude Mace Warren. He and his sons would later build the Methodist Church at Lelia Lake in Donley County, Texas after they moved there in 1904. The photograph was taken prior to the family's move in … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Men Placing Boilers

Description: Photograph on postcard of men setting up boilers to put out an oil fire at the C.L. Perkins No. 5 oil well in Eastland County, Texas in 1919. Smoke from the fire can be seen over the workers.
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Oil Well on Fire

Description: Photograph on postcard an oil fire at the C.L. Perkins No. 5 oil well near Ranger in Eastland County, Texas in 1919. Smoke and flames billow into the sky, while debris from the fire can be seen strewn over the ground.
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Courthouse and Town

Description: Photograph on postcard of Eastland, Texas. A few businesses anc a large building are visible. The large brick building on the right is the old Eastland County Courthouse (demolished in 1926).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Car in Front of House

Description: Photograph on postcard of a house in Eastland, Texas. The house, partially hidden behind trees in the yard, is the Wolf residence. There is an early model car with an old style license plate in the driveway.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Burning Oil Well

Description: Photograph on postcard of the C.L. Perkins No. 5 oil well on fire near Ranger, Texas in 1919. Fire and smoke reach high in the sky, towering over the nearby trees.
Date: 1919
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Derricks over Desdemona

Description: Photograph on postcard of Desdemona, Texas from the south side. Oil derricks tower over the other buildings, hundreds visible stretching back to the horizon.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Derricks in Desdemona

Description: Photograph on postcard of Desdemona, Texas. Oil derricks tower over the other buildings, seemingly hundreds visible stretching back to the horizon.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

Parade

Description: Copy negative of the Shrine Mesa Drum Corps marching down the street in a parade in Ranger, Texas. There are decorations over the street and on buildings, and the street is lined with crowds.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Baptism in Lake

Description: Copy negative of a baptism taking place in a lake in Dothan, Texas. Nancy Boles Buchanan, Hubert Henry Buchanan, W. M. Andrew Buchanan, and Elder Hamp Richards are pictured.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

People by Car

Description: 1 copy negative of two photographs. The first shows a group of three people. There is a man holding a hat on the right. The second photograph shows the profile of a man.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Man and Woman; Portrait of Man; Portrait of Woman

Description: 1 copy negative of scrapbook pages with various photographs; three central photographs are fully visible with other, partially visible photographs surrounding them. The first, in the upper left shows an unknown woman in a long dress and apron standing in front of a house with a porch. A man stands behind her, with his arms wrapped around her. To the right, the second photograph is a portrait of Francis Marion Winfield Scott Seastrunk taken in 1923 and the third photograph is a portrait of Hal… more
Date: {1923,1942}
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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