Around Bradford (Paperback)

Susan M. Pascal

ISBN 10: 0738597007 / ISBN 13: 9780738597003

Published by Arcadia Publishing (SC), 1997

About this Item

Paperback. When people think of Bradford in any historical sense, they think of oil and the remarkable effect that it has had on the community. The discovery of black gold in the late 1870s literally erased the earlier image of a backwoods lumber town and firmly established Bradford as a place of millionaires and mansions, people and progress. This latter image is so strong, however, that a very important part of the history of Bradford is often overlooked a phenomenon that this volume strives to correct.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 Bradfordians heard and we can never feel what they felt, but we can see what they saw through photographs." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Around Bradford (Paperback)
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738597007
• ISBN 13: 9780738597003
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

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.