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[News Script: Ranger hanging]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a 17-year old boy found hanging in his cell in the Ranger City Jail.
Date: October 7, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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

Oil Derrick

Description: Copy negative of two pictures an oil derrick during the Ranger, Texas oil boom. The picture on the left is of the base of an oil well, men working, and equipment around it in a field. The picture on the right shows the whole tower of the well, the small building at its base, men working, and equipment.
Date: 1920~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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

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

[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

[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

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
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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