File:A statue of legendary Texas oilman H.L. Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas LCCN2014633084.tif

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English: Title: A statue of legendary Texas oilman H.L. Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

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Notes: A street scene inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, depicts "Boomtown, U.S.A., 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.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2014633084
Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/28800/28884a.tif
Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.28884

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Carol M. Highsmith (1946–)

	Alternative names	Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith Carol McKinney Highsmith
	Description	American photographer and architectural photographer
	Date of birth	18 May 1946
	Location of birth	Leaksville, North Carolina
	Work period	1981-
	Work location	United States of America
	Authority file	: Q5044454 VIAF: 84615840 ISNI: 0000000121418199 ULAN: 500251255 LCCN: n88121701 NAID: 10571735 WorldCat

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Image title	A statue of legendary Texas oilman H.L. Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas. A street scene inside the museum, on the campus of Kilgore College, depicts "Boomtown, U.S.A., 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.
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