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| Keywords: The one and only exhibit at the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, Texas LCCN2014630672.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; This is a giant storage tank Constructed for the Shell Oil Company in 1928 using mules and hand equipment when the area was experiencing an oil boom it was built to hold more than 1 million barrels of crude oil prior to shipment It did so only once and later attempts to use it to store water were unsuccessful The tank and a few adjacent buildings became a museum in 1986 ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014630672 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/26400/26472a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 26472 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 26472 31 35 7057 0 N 102 52 6708 0 W alt 799_source exif_heading 145 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||