Ranger from the south, Texas, 1919 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Ranger from the south, Texas, 1919. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Ranger from the south
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Ranger from the south, Texas, 1919
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Ranger, in Eastland County, Texas, was in 1919 a town shaped by the oil boom that had followed the discovery of petroleum nearby in 1917. Wooden derricks crowded the surrounding land, and the town's population swelled far beyond what its streets and houses had been built to hold, with workers, speculators, and merchants arriving by rail and road. The Texas & Pacific Railway gave the town a link to outside markets, and the influx of money and people brought hotels, supply houses, and saloons that changed the town's character almost overnight. Residents of the period would have known Ranger as an oil town first, a place where fortunes rose and fell with each new well, and the view from the south shows how the boom had pushed the town's edges outward across the open prairie.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harden, homer t. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,215 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ranger from the south |
| Reference | TX 1919 Ranger from the south |
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