block 96 Burkwaggoner Pool Oil Field, Texas, 1920 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Block 96 Burkwaggoner Pool Oil Field, Texas, 1920 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: "Big Production", panographed from Middle States Lease block 96 featuring, from left to right, blocks 95-89-88-87, "Burkwaggoner Pool".
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block 96 Burkwaggoner Pool Oil Field, Texas, 1920
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Burkburnett, in Wichita County in north Texas, was in the middle of an oil boom in 1920. Drilling had begun in 1918, and within a couple of years the town and the surrounding leases filled with derricks, supply yards, and crews arriving from across the Southwest. Housing could not keep up, so many workers lived in tents and makeshift shacks, and the streets were crowded with freight wagons and early automobiles. The field lay close to Wichita Falls, which had already grown as a railroad and cotton-shipping center, and the strike drew money, speculators, and new residents into both places. This block of leases shows how quickly the land around the town had been given over to wells and equipment.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Creator | almeron newman photographic co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,344 × 749 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | "Big Production", panographed from Middle States Lease block 96 featuring, from left to right, blocks 95-89-88-87, "Burkwaggoner Pool". |
| Reference | TX 1920 block 96 Burkwaggoner Pool Oil Field |
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