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A ranch entrance, dramatically bracketed by oilfield pumpjacks, in Gonzales County, Texas

A ranch entrance, dramatically bracketed by oilfield pumpjacks, in Gon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Kern River oilfield, gelatin silver print

Kern River oilfield, gelatin silver print

J138339 U.S. Copyright Office Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 115 East Jefferson St., Los Angeles. Price $2.15. Order by number. Mail orders receive prompt attention." No. 534. Copyright deposit; ... More

Sherman oilfield, Cal., gelatin silver print

Sherman oilfield, Cal., gelatin silver print

J138342 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; February 17, 1910. No. 550.

A drill bit at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. Put to work on what's been called "the world's deepest fishing job," this bit reached a depth of 30,119 feet in an East Texas oilfield in 1974

A drill bit at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore Coll...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More