Descriptive Summary
Texas Tech University. Southwest
Collection
Artesia Historical
Museum and Art Center, Photograph Collection,
1900-1930
Artesia Historical
Museum and Art Center, photographs dated 1900-1930.
SWCPC 93 E2
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
6 prints
English.
Biographical Sketch
Founded in 1903, Artesia, New Mexico, boasted a system of water works
based on clear artesian wells. In the 1920s, extensive oil fields developed
east of Artesia. Today, oil production and refining, agriculture, and ranching
support the community.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs of artesian wells and oil
wells near Artesia, New Mexico (1908-1920). It also contains a photograph of
the world's largest artesian well, owned and operated by C. G. Ditto. This well
was located in Lake Arthur, New Mexico (undated).
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.
Home Refining
Company--Photographs.
Kansas-New Mexico Oil
Company--Photographs.
Turknett Well of Artesia,
New Mexico--Photographs.
Places
Artesia
(N.M.)--Photographs.
Artesia (N.M.)
Lake Arthur
(N.M.)--Photographs.
Lake Arthur
(N.M.)
Subjects
Oil wells--New
Mexico--Photographs.
Petroleum industry and
trade--New Mexico--Artesia--Photographs.
Water distribution
structures--New Mexico--Artesia--Photographs.
Acquisition
Gifts, 1972-1982
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Preferred Citation
Artesia Historical Museum and Art Center, Photograph Collection,
1908-1920, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas
Digitized by
Maria Vallejo, 2011
Collection Inventory
Photographs
1
SWCPC 93-E1: New Mexico schools (4 negatives and 6
print),
1900-1919
2
SWCPC 93-E2: New Mexico - Artesia/Oil (6 negatives and 6
prints),
1908-1920
3
SWCPC 93-E3: New Mexico - Roswell, Chaves Co.,
miscellaneous New Mexico (14 prints),
1908-1920
4
SWCPC 93-E5: New Mexico - Feed mill and warehouse (3
negatives and 3 prints),
1908-1920
5
SWCPC 93-E6: New Mexico - Artesia, New Mexico (1919);
Navajo lodge; San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe; and Elizabeth Town, New Mexico (3
negatives and 7 prints),
1919-1939