A statue of legendary Texas oilman Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: A street scene inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, depicts Boomtown, , and includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the subterranean black gold. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Jr., known throughout his life as H. L. Hunt, was a Texas oil tycoon and conservative Republican political activist. By trading poker winnings for oil rights, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Fi
A statue of legendary Texas oilman Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: A street scene inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, depicts Boomtown, , and includes a small theater where a movie shows how wells extract the subterranean black gold. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Jr., known throughout his life as H. L. Hunt, was a Texas oil tycoon and conservative Republican political activist. By trading poker winnings for oil rights, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's largest oil deposits, in the 1930s. From it and his other acquisitions, he accrued a fortune that was among the world's largest; at the time of his death, he was reputed to have the highest net worth of any individual in the world.; 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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