Full-sized and scaled-down models of oil derricks mark a silver of the "World's Richest Acre" that has been preserved in downtown Kilgore in East Texas Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Oil derrick outside Spindletop Park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Beaumont, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014

At the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas Physical description:. Notes: This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in dioramas, movie

Lobby mural at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Mural artist: name not given.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca

A pumpjack, sometimes called a "grasshopper" oil pump because of its appearance, on the outskirts of Electra, a small city in Wichita County, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gif

Recreated muddy street scene at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas Physical description:. Notes: The scene depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil fie

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 Physical description:.

A cluttered alley off Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; The street depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during

A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description:. Notes: The scene depicts "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. history was dis