Eastland County 1919 Oil Wells, Texas – 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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Eastland County 1919 Oil Wells, Texas comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Connellee-Cotton-Norwood in distance; "Golden Switch", left; "Perkins District", right; "Tex. Richard's" well, center
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Eastland County 1919 Oil Wells, Texas
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Eastland County, Texas, in 1919 was in the middle of an oil boom that had transformed a farming and ranching region within about two years. Wildcat drilling after the 1917 discoveries near Ranger and Desdemona brought speculators, drillers, and laborers into towns that had been small agricultural trade centers, and rigs began crowding onto leases around them. Housing could not keep up, so many workers lived in tents, shacks, and boarding houses, while merchants and saloons ran at all hours. Residents of the county would have known the area first for cattle, cotton, and the Eastland courthouse, but by this year oil had become the subject of nearly every conversation in town.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harden, homer t. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,242 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Connellee-Cotton-Norwood in distance; "Golden Switch", left; "Perkins District", right; "Tex. Richard's" well, center |
| Reference | TX Eastland County 1919 Oil Wells |
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