Photographic Collections in Texas: A Union Guide
Complied by Richard Pearce-Moses, ©1987 by The Texas Historical Foundation, 378+ pages (Chapter, the Petroleum Museum's Archives Collection of Photographs, pages 254-258)
Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History 1866-1936
Text by Walter Rundell, Jr., ©1977 by Walter Rundell, Jr., 260 pages (Chapter on Big Lake with photographs, pages 188-198; chapter on the Permian Basin with photographs, pages 196-207)
Oil in West Texas and New Mexico
Text by Walter Rundell, Jr., ©1982 by The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library and Hall of Fame, 183 pages. Published for The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library and Hall of Fame by Texas A&M University Press, College Station. Entire book of 241 photos of the Permian Basin includes 2 maps and 9 illustrations.
The Permian Basin, Petroleum Empire of the Southwest, Vols. I and II: Era of Discovery, Era of Advancement
Funded by the Abell-Hanger Foundation of Midland. Contains chapter on the formation of The Petroleum Museum. The Permian Press, El Paso, Texas. Volume I contains over 200 photos of oil wells and oil field activities, boom towns, and portraits of men and women of the oil and gas industry. Volume II has nearly 200 photographs dating from the Depression to the 1970s.
Life in the Oil Field
By Roger M. and Diane Olien, ©1986, 258 pages. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. Written with the use of hundreds of photos and taped interviews, many from The Petroleum Museum Archives.
Join the Excitement!
©1993 by The Petroleum Museum, Production by CQ Productions, Dallas. Half-inch video: 9 minutes, 35 seconds. History and overview of the collections and programs of this museum.
Tom Lovell: Storyteller with a Brush
Autobiographical narration by the late western artist Tom Lovell of Santa Fe, New Mexico, relating his story of painting the 14 historical oil works commissioned by the Abell-Hanger Foundation of Midland and on view at The Petroleum Museum. ©1995 by The Petroleum Museum. Half-inch video, 29 minutes. Production by CQ Productions, Dallas.
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