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Title: Doctoring A Well
Identifier: e_enr_240
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: Oil wells sometimes get stopped up with sand or wax, or the pumping equipment needs repair. Oil men use a workover rig like this to reach into the hole and doctor their sick wells

Title: [Esso commercial reel], [Esso commercial reel]
Identifier: dv_00005
Creator: Esso Corporation
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: ExxonMobil historical collection
Description: A one hour reel compiling commercials for Esso-brand gas and oil, as well as commercials for Esso-sponsored programs. Many of the clips are from the "Esso Research Works Wonders With Oil" series.

Title: Jack Pumps Oil
Identifier: e_enr_243
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: In many Texas oil fields, oil wells do not have enough gas or water pressure to flow by themselves. In such oil fields, pumping jacks nod up and down to life the oil from the bottom of the hole

Title: Kruez Market BBQ Pit
Identifier: e_ha_0259
Creator: Annas, Harry Forrest
Topic: Eating and drinking
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Harry Forrest Annas photograph collection
Description: Business, BBQ restaurant

Title: Laying A Pipeline
Identifier: e_enr_245
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: Pipelines running underground all over Texas carry oil and gas from fields to refineries and cities. Here a new pipeline is being painted and wrapped and buried in a ditch by machines

Title: Lincoln Fulps store
Identifier: e_ha_0309
Creator: Annas, Harry Forrest
Topic: Business & Industry, Stores & shops
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Harry Forrest Annas photograph collection
Description: Buildings and architecture, business, appliance and electronics store interior

Title: Oil Exploration
Identifier: e_enr_244
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: A Texas seismograph crew measures the echos in the earth made by this explosion to learn what kind of rock is below. If it is the kind that might hold oil, a well may be drilled.

Title: Oil Under The Sand
Identifier: e_enr_242
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: This big rig is drilling a well deep below the sand hills of far west Texas. Some of the nation's great oil fields are here. Now desert-like, this area was under the sea millions of years ago

Title: Oscar Peterson Trio
Identifier: e_cl_0025
Creator: Littlejohn, Calvin, 1909-1993
Topic: Entertainment
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Calvin Littlejohn photographic archive
Description: Oscar Peterson Trio posing with instruments

Title: Patton Cabinet Shop, Patton Kitchen, Lynette Penick
Identifier: e_ha_0265
Creator: Annas, Harry Forrest
Topic: Houses
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Harry Forrest Annas photograph collection
Description: Buildings and architecture, home interior

Title: Patton Cabinet Shop, Patton Kitchen, Lynette Penick
Identifier: e_ha_0264
Creator: Annas, Harry Forrest
Topic: Houses
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Harry Forrest Annas photograph collection
Description: Buildings and architecture, home interior

Title: A Texas Refinery
Identifier: e_enr_251
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: At refineries, the crude oil which comes from the wells is cooked and treated to make gasoline, fuel oil, greases, and many other products. This is one of many large Texas refineries

Title: Texas Tank Farm
Identifier: e_enr_241
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1950-1960
Resource: Prints and photographs collection
Description: Caption: Pipelines bring oil from the field to these tank farms where the oil is stored until needed. In Texas one sees these tank farms along the pipe line routes and near big refineries