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Around Bradford
Before the discovery of "black gold" in the late 1870s, Bradford was considered a backwoods lumber town, but the following oil boom changed everything.

Almost overnight, Bradford was transformed into a place of millionaires and mansions, people and progress, but Bradford's important earlier history was promptly forgotten. Each photograph is from the collection of the Bradford Landmark Society, and many of these pictures have never before been published. Covering the era from the late 1850s to the mid-1940s, Around Bradford focuses on a time that people regard with fondness and hold firmly in their memories. We can never hear what those early residents heard, and we can never feel what they felt, but with these photographs, we can at least see what they saw.

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Around Bradford
Before the discovery of "black gold" in the late 1870s, Bradford was considered a backwoods lumber town, but the following oil boom changed everything.

Almost overnight, Bradford was transformed into a place of millionaires and mansions, people and progress, but Bradford's important earlier history was promptly forgotten. Each photograph is from the collection of the Bradford Landmark Society, and many of these pictures have never before been published. Covering the era from the late 1850s to the mid-1940s, Around Bradford focuses on a time that people regard with fondness and hold firmly in their memories. We can never hear what those early residents heard, and we can never feel what they felt, but with these photographs, we can at least see what they saw.

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Around Bradford

Around Bradford

by Arcadia Publishing
Around Bradford

Around Bradford

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Before the discovery of "black gold" in the late 1870s, Bradford was considered a backwoods lumber town, but the following oil boom changed everything.

Almost overnight, Bradford was transformed into a place of millionaires and mansions, people and progress, but Bradford's important earlier history was promptly forgotten. Each photograph is from the collection of the Bradford Landmark Society, and many of these pictures have never before been published. Covering the era from the late 1850s to the mid-1940s, Around Bradford focuses on a time that people regard with fondness and hold firmly in their memories. We can never hear what those early residents heard, and we can never feel what they felt, but with these photographs, we can at least see what they saw.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738597003
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 05/01/1997
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,091,001
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

With over two hundred photographs, this book by Sally Ryan Costik and the Bradford Landmark Society showcases the everyday lives of Bradford citizens—people laboring in the oil fields or industries or stores; events that entertained, sorrowed, or thrilled; and buildings that marked the streets and are so much a part of the town. Several exceptional images are presented: the first airplane landing in a local field; a head-on freight train collision in the 1920s; the interior of Shea's theater; children standing in a schoolyard long since abandoned; and a powerful landscape filled with towering standard oil rigs.
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