Taft Kern Co, California, 1911 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Taft Kern Co, California, 1911. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Taft, Calif. and "25" Hill, Kern Co., Oct. 7th, 1911
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Taft Kern Co, California, 1911
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Taft, in the western San Joaquin Valley of Kern County, was a young oil town in 1911, only about two years old and named for William Howard Taft, then president. Its growth followed the rapid development of the Midway-Sunset oil field, where drilling crews, teamsters, and pipeline and refinery workers streamed in and pushed up the local population. Life in such a town revolved around the derricks, the company offices, and the rail and freight connections that carried crude and supplies, while the valley's farms and cattle ranches surrounded the new streets. Residents of the period would have known Taft mainly as a place of wells and payrolls, a settlement whose fortunes rose and fell with the price of oil and the pace of new drilling.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | west coast art co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,126 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Taft, Calif. and "25" Hill, Kern Co., Oct. 7th, 1911 |
| Reference | CA Taft Kern Co.1911 |
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