Burk-Waggoner distric, Texas, 1919 – 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 Burk-Waggoner distric, Texas, 1919. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Burk-Waggoner district, showing blocks 59-60-61-62-63-72-73-74-75-76-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-95-96-97-98
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Burk-Waggoner distric, Texas, 1919
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The Burk-Waggoner district in Wichita County, north Texas, was in 1919 one of the most closely watched oil fields in the country, a little over a year after drillers struck oil on land tied to the Waggoner cattle ranch and the Burk Burnett holdings. The discovery turned ranch country near Wichita Falls into a crowded landscape of derricks, tent camps, and rough new streets, as leaseholders, laborers, and merchants arrived faster than housing could be built. Oil money began to reshape the local economy, pulling attention away from cattle and cotton toward pipelines, storage tanks, and the rail freight that carried crude to market. People in Wichita Falls and the surrounding oil towns knew the district as a place where fortunes could be made overnight and lost just as quickly, a reputation that stayed with the field through the years after the war.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harden, homer t. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,352 × 689 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Burk-Waggoner district, showing blocks 59-60-61-62-63-72-73-74-75-76-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-95-96-97-98 |
| Reference | TX 1919 a Burk-Waggoner distric |
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