Burk-Burnett district showing blocks, Texas, 1919 – 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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Burk-Burnett district showing blocks, Texas, 1919 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Burk-Burnett district showing blocks 82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-95-96-97
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Burk-Burnett district showing blocks, Texas, 1919
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Burkburnett, in Wichita County in North Texas, was a small ranching community until the autumn of 1918, when a wildcat well drilled on land tied to the Burk Burnett ranch brought in oil. By 1919 the town was swelling with roughnecks, teamsters, merchants, and speculators who arrived faster than housing could be built, so tents, shacks, and hastily framed stores crowded streets laid out in new blocks. This panoramic view of the district captures that rush, with lease brokers and supply houses lining the main streets and the nearby city of Wichita Falls serving as a source of freight and supplies. Residents in 1919 knew the place chiefly as an oil boom town, and its fortunes rose and fell with each new well drilled in the surrounding field.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harden, homer t. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,390 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Burk-Burnett district showing blocks 82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-95-96-97 |
| Reference | TX 1919 e Burk-Burnett district showing blocks |
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