urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00002 Colliton Discovery Well: An Inventory of Its Photographs, 1923-1925, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806)-742-3749 Fax: (806)-742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu/ Contact Person: Reference Archivist
Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, February 4, 2011. Finding aid written inEnglish. Inventory for the Colliton Discovery Well Photographs, 1923-1925 Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2011 Descriptive Summary Texas Tech University. Southwest Collection Colliton Discovery Well Photograph Collection, 1923-1925 The Colliton Discovery Well Photograph Collection, dated 1923-1925, highlights the oil and petroleum industry at work at the Colliton Discovery Well. SWCPC 270-E1(A-B) Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 negative and 5 prints English. Biographical Sketch

Cherokee County, named for the Cherokee Indians, is located in central East Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas Online, Cherokee County is "bordered on the north by Smith County, on the east by Rusk and Nacogdoches counties, on the south by Angelina County, and on the west by Anderson and Houston counties." The area is rich in natural resources such as oil, abundant water, natural gas and timber.

 Scope and Contents

This collection, comprised of 1 negative and 5 prints contains historic images of the petroleum and gas industry in Cherokee, Texas, at the Colliton Well from 1923-1925.

The negatives and prints are housed in separate envelopes.

Images from this collection have been digitized and can viewed at http://hdl.handle.net/10605/7733

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Places Cherokee County (Tex.) Subjects Gas fields--Texas--Photographs. Oil fields--Texas--Photographs. Oil industry workers. Oil industry workers--Texas--Photographs. Oil well drilling--Texas. Oil well drilling rigs--Texas--Photographs. Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--History--20th century. Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--History--20th century--Photographs. Acquisition

Gift, 1971

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Preferred Citation

Colliton Discovery Well Photograph Collection, 1923-1925 and, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Collection Inventory Photographs 1 SWCPC 270-E1: Drilling Crew, Colliton Well (1 print), 1923 2 SWCPC 270-E2: Slush-pit full of oil, Colliton Well (1 print), 1925 3 SWCPC 270-E3: The crew and the crowd (1 print), 1924 4 SWCPC 270-E4: Drilling Crew, Colliton Well (1 print, 1 negative), 1923 5 SWCPC 270-E5: Colliton Well gusher (1 print), 1925