Maricopa, California, 1911 – Antique 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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Step back in time with Maricopa, California, 1911, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Maricopa, California, Oct. 7th, 1911
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Maricopa, California, 1911
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Maricopa, California, in 1911 was a young oil town in Kern County, built around the Associated Oil Company's fields in the San Joaquin Valley. The discovery of oil in the Midway-Sunset area a few years earlier had turned sleepy farmland and cattle range into a boomtown of derricks, storage tanks, and pipelines, and Maricopa was laid out as a company-linked settlement to house workers and their families. Its main business was pumping and shipping crude, and the Southern Pacific's branch lines carried oil and supplies in and out of the valley. Residents would have known the town first for its oil wells and the rough, fast-growing labor of the fields, while the surrounding valley remained largely dry, hot, and sparsely settled.
| 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 × 1,015 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Maricopa, California, Oct. 7th, 1911 |
| Reference | CA Maricopa 1911 |
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