Offshore oil construction photographs documenting platform fabrication, barge work, marine transport, and field logistics tied to the Gulf Coast petroleum industry in 1965-66, with direct evidence of how offshore drilling depended on a broad labor system before a rig ever reached a producing field. Taken at Farmers Marine Copper Works.....
Oil Extraction and Oil Well Fires in South Texas. Three silver gelatin black-and-white photographic prints, including one gelatin silver press photo (8 x 10 in.) and two photo prints from negatives (5 x 7 in.). Dated 1952 and 1954. Content includes an image of a wildcat rig in Lavaca County.....
Texas and Kansas petroleum infrastructure photo archive, 1970s and 1984, documenting the industrial system that linked Gulf Coast fabrication yards, port facilities, heavy marine transport, offshore petroleum extraction, and inland drilling in the mature oil fields of Kansas. The photographs show offshore structures moving from shore side assembly into open.....
