Outdoor exhibit in Oil City Louisiana 2020
Outdoor exhibit in Oil City, a now-quiet but once booming town in far-northwest Louisiana. Founded as a railroad flag stop and fishing town near Caddo Lake in the late 1890s, it came to life when oil was discovered in 1905 and raged with activity by 1910, by which time the population had exploded from 100 or so to 25,000 and land prices fro 50 cents to $500 an acre. Between 1905 and 1942, 160 million barrels of oil were pumped from the Oil City-Pine Island field. It's a story recalled in exhibits and photographs within and outside the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum in town.
- Date
- 2020-10-30
- Photographer / author
- Carol M. Highsmith
- Collection
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 543 pixels
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