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Midland / James Collett and Doug Page.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Collett, James, author.
Page, Doug, author.
Series:
Postcard history series.
Postcard history series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Midland (Tex.)-History-Pictorial works.
Midland (Tex.)--History--Pictorial works.
Midland (Tex.).
Midland (Tex.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
Midland (Tex.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2016.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the opening of the 20th century.Businesses, residents, and promoters embraced this new technology to produce images capturing Midland's unusual rural-and-cosmopolitan mix.
Contents:
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Windmill City Days
2. Pioneering the Permian Basin
3. Boomtown Times
4. Wartime, Peacetime
5. Tall City Transformation.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-4396-5553-7
OCLC:
934796964

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