Odd Fellows Home Corsicana, Texas, 1914 – 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 Odd Fellows Home Corsicana, Texas, 1914. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: I.O.O.F., W. and O. Home showing new chapple [sic] and hospital buildings, Corsicana, Texas, June 10, 1914
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Odd Fellows Home Corsicana, Texas, 1914
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Corsicana, the seat of Navarro County, was a cotton town in 1914, but since a water-well drilling struck oil in 1894 it had also become a petroleum center that drew drillers, pipeline crews, and refinery workers. Railroads carried bales of cotton and barrels of crude out of town, and the oil boom pushed the population up, bringing new houses and crowded streets that city leaders struggled to pave and light. The Odd Fellows Home, run by the fraternal order whose lodges spread across Texas after the Civil War, cared for aged members and their dependents, a charity supported by lodge dues and donations. Residents of the day would have known Corsicana first for its oil field and second for the care the Odd Fellows gave to the elderly and widowed.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | johnson, jno. j. (john j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,385 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | I.O.O.F., W. and O. Home showing new chapple [sic] and hospital buildings, Corsicana, Texas, June 10, 1914 |
| Reference | TX 1914 Odd Fellows Home Corsicana |
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