Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 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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This rare historic image captures Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 1919 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 1919
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Burkburnett, in Wichita County in north Texas, was a small farming town until oil was struck nearby in 1918, and by January 1919 the boom had remade it. Drillers, teamsters, merchants, and speculators poured in faster than housing and streets could keep up, and many newcomers lived in tents and makeshift shacks while derricks rose across the surrounding fields. The town sat close to Wichita Falls, which served as the supply and rail center for the new field, so the two communities grew tied together. A panoramic view from early 1919 would have shown a town still in the middle of that rush, where people knew the place mainly as an oil camp at the edge of the Texas plains.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 958 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | TX a Burkburnett, Texas, January 20th, 1919 |
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