A talking electric-company lineman figure above a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: The scene depicts Boomtown , an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in history was discovered. The street inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the subterranean black gold.; Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foun

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A talking electric-company lineman figure above a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: The scene depicts Boomtown , an amalgam view of Texas during the oil boom of the 1930s, when the largest oil field in history was discovered. The street inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the subterranean black gold.; Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.;

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