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[Gulf Oil Coke Stills]

Description: Photograph of the coke stills at the Gulf Oil Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The coke stills are in a long building with five smoke stacks. Two cylindrical buildings are to the left of the stills. A short wire fence is between the photographer and the buildings. Railroad tracks run by the stills.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Gulf Oil Machine Shops]

Description: Photograph of the machine shop at the Gulf Oil Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. Several workers are working at worktables on the right side of the factory. Several more are on a locomotive crane on the left. The shop walls are covered in windows.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Gulf Oil Plant]

Description: Photograph of the Gulf Oil Plant from the entrance in Port Arthur, TX. A man is standing by the gate, holding it open. Several smokestacks are to the right. There are several large buildings on the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Gulf Oil Coking Operations]

Description: Photograph of the coking operations at the Gulf Oil Refinery. On the left of the picture are several tall brick storage containers. Near those are tall, brick chimneys. Two workers appear to be performing maintenance on a brick wall in the picture foreground.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Port Arthur Grain Elevator]

Description: Photograph of a grain elevator built in Port Arthur, TX by Arthur Stilwell. The grain elevator is a very large complex with four chutes protruding from the main wall. Three smaller storage containers are to the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Men Making Wooden Barrels]

Description: Photograph of two men at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX building wooden barrels. The barrels are being made to hold petroleum product. Both workers have the barrel boards secured by a single barrel band at the bottom and are placing a top band on the barrel.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Cotton Baling Plant]

Description: Photograph of a storage area for cotton bales. The bales are made in a cotton baling plant in Sabine, TX. Large piles of bales are placed around the room. In the middle of the room, there is a machine that appears to be forming the cotton coming in on a conveyor belt into bales.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Menhaden Fish Plant]

Description: Photograph of the Menhaden Fish Plant in Port Arthur, TX. The plant is a grouping of buildings, dominated by a long structure to the left of the rest. An area for storage of raw building materials is to the right. Four fishing boats are docked in the Sabine-Neches Canal adjacent to the plant.
Date: unknown
Creator: J. C. Watkins Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Brick Complex at Texaco Refinery]

Description: Photograph of a brick complex at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. Three workers are walking around the building. A tall storage tank is on the left with a ladder leaned against it. An object that appears to be an oven is in the picture foreground with a tall pipe protruding from the top.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Gulf Oil Refinery Wax Works]

Description: Photograph of the Gulf Oil Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The main focal point of the picture is the refinery's wax works. One smokestack is on the main building. On the right side of the building, there is a line of five stacks behind a grouping of storage tanks. Long lengths of pipe are running through the bottom.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Laboratory Expansion]

Description: Photograph of Texaco Island on the Sabine-Neches Canal in Port Arthur, Texas. The island is covered in petroleum storage containers and several large tankers are in dock in the water behind the island. Tugboats are also pushing barges through the entrance into the canal.
Date: July 1967
Creator: Watkins Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Aerial of Texaco Island]

Description: Photograph of Texaco Island in Port Arthur, TX. Several ships are docked by the shore. On the island are a large grain elevator and a motor oil packaging factory. At the far end of the island, the is a grouping of petroleum storage tanks.
Date: unknown
Creator: J. C. Watkins Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Holmes-Manley Batteries]

Description: Photograph of the Holmes-Manley Batteries at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The batteries are all similar. Each unit has a small white shack and one smokestack. There is also a circular device with each battery unit.
Date: unknown
Creator: Everett Photographic Service
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Additive Unit]

Description: Photograph of storage tanks for petroleum additives at the Texaco Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. There are two tanks. Both are atop high metal scaffolding. Many pipelines and tanks are underneath the tanks for routing of the chemicals. Several workers wearing hard hats are working beneath the scaffolding.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Texaco Plant Personnel Showers]

Description: Photograph of the personnel showers at the Texaco plant in Port Arthur, TX. The showers are very simple. The floor is concrete and the walls are wooden planks. A single pipe is protruding up from the floor and connects to another pipe which has four shower heads. A small space heater is outside the shower to the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Returning from Deep-Sea Fishing Trip]

Description: Photograph of a large group of people, identified as employees and officials of the First National Bank and Pure Oil Company, returning from a deep-sea fishing trip sixty miles into the Gulf of Mexico. All the people are standing next to the railing of the boat, most holding their catches over the side. Several men are sitting on the life boats, pier posts, and boat awning.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Photograph of George M. Sims]

Description: Photograph of George M. Sims. Sims was the Superintendent of Schools in Port Arthur, TX from 1914-1944. He was one of the first to use the 12-year school grade system. He is posed wearing a suit and tie. Only his head is photographed. He is also wearing glasses.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Photograph of Young George M. Sims]

Description: Photograph of George M. Sims at as a young man. Sims was the Superintendent of Schools in Port Arthur, TX from 1914-1944. He was one of the first to use the 12-year school grade system. He is posed wearing a suit and tie in a formal portrait.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Port Arthur Public Library
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