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[Arkansas courthouses]: El Dorado, Union Co. – Historic Print

[Arkansas courthouses]: El Dorado, Union Co., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Arkansas courthouses]: El Dorado, Union Co., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses collection.

(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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[Arkansas courthouses]: El Dorado, Union Co. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Arkansas courthouses]: El Dorado, Union Co.

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The courthouse in El Dorado, the seat of Union County in south Arkansas, is the focus of this view, though the caption card gives no date for it. El Dorado changed quickly after oil was struck in the nearby Smackover field in 1921, when a town known mainly for timber and farming became a center of drilling, investment, and new building. County courthouse photographs like this one were often collected as a record of local public architecture, so the building's design and its setting are the details worth studying.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ark.; Courthouses--Ark.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,084 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147394

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