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Texas Oil Industry Disaster Photograph Archive Documenting Refinery Explosions, Offshore Platform Accidents, and Mid Century Petroleum Labor, 1938-1979 by Texas

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Title: Texas Oil Industry Disaster Photograph Archive Documenting Refinery Explosions, Offshore Platform Accidents, and Mid Century Petroleum Labor, 1938-1979
Author: Texas
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1930. Archive of press photographs documenting systems of petroleum extraction, offshore drilling, and industrial emergency response in Texas between 1938 and 1979. The material documents how oil companies, drilling crews, firefighters, and industrial workers operated within the high-risk infrastructure of the American petroleum industry through visual records of refinery explosions, well blowouts, offshore platform accidents, and active drilling operations. The photographs reveal the mechanisms of oil production and disaster response across inland fields and Gulf Coast offshore sites during a period when Texas oil played a central role in the expansion of American industrial power, military logistics, and global energy markets. Produced largely for the Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, and United Press International, the archive provides primary-source evidence for the study of industrial labor, workplace hazards, extractive infrastructure, and the environmental and human costs of mid-twentieth-century oil production. Collection consists of seven original black-and-white silver gelatin press photographs measuring approximately 10 x 8 inches. Several images document catastrophic oilfield fires and explosions associated with the East Texas oil boom and Gulf Coast petroleum industry. One aerial photograph dated July 28, 1956 depicts the aftermath of the Shamrock Oil & Gas Corporation explosion near Dumas, Texas, showing scorched circular storage fields, collapsed piping infrastructure, and thick smoke rising from burned refinery grounds. The attached caption notes that sixteen workers died and at least thirty were injured in the blast, with the resulting fireball reportedly visible from Amarillo forty miles away. Two Associated Press photographs dated January 1938 portray uncontrolled oil well fires in the Kilgore oil field during the height of the East Texas oil boom. One image shows flames reportedly reaching 150 feet above a wild well blowout while firefighters attempt unsuccessfully to suppress the fire with high-pressure water streams. Another photograph depicts silhouetted firefighters approaching the burning wellhead after temporarily suppressing the flames with chemicals in order to close a valve. Additional photographs document offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, including a United Press International image dated May 11, 1979 showing exhausted survivors of a collapsed offshore platform south of Galveston wrapped in towels while awaiting medical treatment; the accompanying caption notes that nine workers remained missing from the thirty-four-man crew. Another image dated September 15, 1956 depicts oilmen silhouetted atop an offshore drill rig approximately fifteen miles off the Texas coast while a helicopter approaches carrying replacement personnel. A June 1954 photograph from Brazoria County documents drilling operations at a depth of 9,544 feet as workers remove drill stems to change bits at the McGeary D.G. Company No. 1 Jamison Estate well. Additional images show derricks under construction, drilling fields crowded with infrastructure, and industrial crews working amid active extraction sites. Together, the photographs document the immense economic importance and physical danger of the Texas petroleum industry during the mid-twentieth century, when inland oil booms and offshore exploration transformed both regional landscapes and global energy systems. Particularly notable is the archive's sustained focus on labor and catastrophe, preserving visual evidence of the hazardous conditions faced by oilfield workers, firefighters, and offshore drilling crews operating under extreme pressure and technological risk. The images also illustrate the growing complexity of extraction systems as drilling operations expanded from rural inland fields to large-scale offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Minor editorial markings and light handling wear to versos with scattered creasing consistent with newsroom use; photographs remain sharp and well-preserved overall. Very good condition. A substantial documentary archive of industrial labor, extraction technology, and petroleum disasters in twentieth-century Texas oil history.

BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4 by Freud, Sigmund

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Title: BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4
Author: Freud, Sigmund
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good++
Description: London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. Hard Cover. Very Good++. A Very Good++ hardback First British Edition First Printing in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spine and front cover. No mention of the Hogarth Press on title page. Mild cover edge wear. 8vo. 90 pp.

[Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. A Proclamation [by the President of the United States] [With] Ten other Food Related Proclamations by Wilson, Woodrow

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Title: [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. A Proclamation [by the President of the United States] [With] Ten other Food Related Proclamations
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Pin holes along inner margins else very good copies, mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on various dates between Feb
Description: [Washington D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1920. First editions. Broadsides or self wrappers. Pin holes along inner margins else very good copies, mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on various dates between Feb. 13, 1919 and Nov. 12, 1920.. 1 - 3 pp. each. 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. No. 1506-A (Jan. 7, 1919). Also: [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. No.1510 (Jan. 25, 1919). [Permitting the Use of Grain in the Manufacture of Non-Intoxicating Beverages] No. 1511 (Jan. 30, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1511-A (Feb. 11, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1516 (March 19, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1526 (June 19, 1919). [Licensing the Storage and Distribution of Wheat and Wheat Flour]. No. 1527 (June 23, 1919). [Discontinuing Prohibitions and Limitations on Importation and Exportation of Wheat and Wheat Flour]. No. 154 (Nov. 21, 1919). [Transferring to the Attorney General the Powers and Authority heretofore held by the Food Administrator except those relating to Wheat and Wheat Products which are Transferred to Julius H. Barnes]. No. 1542 (Nov. 21, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No.1565 (May 25, 1920). Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties. No. 1579 (Oct. 30, 1920).

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