Ponca City, Oklahoma, 1928 – 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.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Ponca City, Oklahoma, 1928 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic photo of Ponca City, Okla.
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Ponca City, Oklahoma, 1928
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Ponca City in 1928 was an oil town, and its growth since the strikes that followed 1911 had carried it far beyond the prairie trading post it had been. Marland Oil and Continental Oil drew drilling crews, pipeline men and refinery workers into the city, and their payrolls shaped its shops, banks and hotels. E.W. Marland was raising a large Italian Renaissance-style mansion on a hill above town, a visible sign of how much money the wells had brought in. The town still carried the name of the Ponca people, who had been moved onto a reservation in the area in the 1870s, and many residents of 1928 would have known Ponca City first as a company town of derricks and refineries.
| Created / published | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Creator | brown, v. t. (virgil t.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Oklahoma |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 999 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic photo of Ponca City, Okla. |
| Reference | OK 1928 Ponca City |
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