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Cots in demand because of oil boom, Salem, Illinois

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses in the Alameda residential section of Corpus Christi, Texas. These houses are about two years old and were built by people who came into Corpus Christi because of the oil boom, sea wall construction work, etc. This is the type of housing which is greatly needed for naval officers and their families who will be stationed at the naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More

Cots in demand because of oil boom, Salem, Illinois

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cots in demand because of oil boom, Salem, Illinois

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More

Houses in the Alameda residential section of Corpus Christi, Texas. These houses are about two years old and were built by people who came into Corpus Christi because of the oil boom, sea wall construction work, etc. This is the type of housing which is greatly needed for naval officers and their families who will be stationed at the naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cots in demand because of oil boom, Salem, Illinois

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More

A depiction at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas, of a muddy street in "Boomtown U.S.A.," an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in U.S. history was discovered

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The street inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the su More

Mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil boom, accented by cattle brands, on a building in Kermit in Winkler County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib More

Detail of mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil boom in which the Shell Oil Company created a giant, open oil storage tank that later became a local museum attraction the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib More