Odd Fellows Home, Corsicana, Texas, 1910 – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Odd Fellows Home, Corsicana, Texas, 1910, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Odd Fellows Widow's & Orphan's Home, Corsicana, Texas
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Odd Fellows Home, Corsicana, Texas, 1910
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Corsicana, the seat of Navarro County in east-central Texas, stood in 1910 as one of the state's first oil towns, a status it owed to the shallow oil field struck in 1894 while drillers were searching for water. A refinery built in the town in the late 1890s turned that crude into products, and the money from oil and cotton shaped the streets, shops, and new buildings of the 1900s. The Odd Fellows, a fraternal order that ran charity for members and their families, had established a home for aged and needy members and their dependents in Corsicana, which tied the institution to the town's growing civic life. For residents of 1910, the place was known as an oil town and a railroad and farm trading center, and the home was one of the places where the order's charity was carried out.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | johnson, jno. j. (john j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,102 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Odd Fellows Widow's & Orphan's Home, Corsicana, Texas |
| Reference | TX 1910 Odd Fellows Home, Corsicana |
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