Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract, 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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Step back in time with Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract, Texas, 1919, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract
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Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract, Texas, 1919
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Desdemona, in Eastland County in north-central Texas, was a small farming and ranching community until oil came in nearby in 1918. Within a year the land around the town was crowded with derricks, and workers, land speculators, and supply merchants arrived faster than housing could be built, so tents and hastily framed shacks spread across the surrounding pastures. The boom that began at Ranger in 1917 had already made Eastland County a center of wildcat drilling, and residents of Desdemona knew their town as a place where fortunes were made and lost almost overnight. Daily life revolved around leases, crude prices, and freight wagons hauling pipe and drilling tools over dirt roads. This view of the Terry tract shows the field at the height of that rush.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | almeron newman photographic co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,262 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract |
| Reference | TX 1919 Desdemona oil field from Terry Tract |
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