Goose Creek Oil Field Baytown, Texas, 1919 – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Goose Creek Oil Field Baytown, Texas, 1919, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Goose Creek Oil Field
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Goose Creek Oil Field Baytown, Texas, 1919
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Goose Creek, on the bay side of Baytown in Harris and Chambers counties, was one of the most productive oil fields in Texas in 1919. Its discovery in 1916 had turned a quiet stretch of marsh and cattle range into a boomtown of derricks, pipelines, and temporary housing. The field's crude fed nearby refineries and was shipped out through the Houston Ship Channel, which had opened in 1914 and gave the Gulf Coast an inland port. The wartime demand for fuel that had driven drilling was ending just as the industry was expanding, and residents of the district knew their town as the center of the new oil economy.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schlueter, f. j. (frank j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,346 × 883 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Goose Creek Oil Field |
| Reference | TX 1919 Goose Creek Oil Field Baytown |
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