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Finding Aid for the Vallie Fletcher Taylor
Photograph Collection on Spindletop, circa
1901
Accession AC -675
Finding aid created by
Tyrrell Historical Library staff
Summary Information
Title: Vallie Fletcher Taylor photograph collection on Spindletop
Creator: Clark, A. S., Photographer
Inclusive dates: circa 1901.
Extent: (1) folder.
Abstract:
Albert Clark (A. S. Clark) was a photographer in Beaumont, Texas, in the early
1900s. This collection of his photographs depicts the Spindletop oil field and the
subsequent growth and activity it brought to Beaumont.
Call number: Small Photograph Collections, Box 1.
Language: The material is in English.
Repository: Tyrrell Historical Library
695 N. Pearl St
Beaumont, TX 77701
Phone: 409-833-2759
Home Page:
http://www.beaumontlibrary.org/tyrrell—historical—library.htm
Access and Use
Acquisition Information:
Vallie Fletcher Taylor, Indian Mountain Ranch, Hico, TX
Arrangement:
This collection is organized into (1) folder with the photographs numbered
consecutively.
Access Restrictions:
No restrictions apply.
Copyright:
Copyright is in the public domain.
Related Material:
Spindletop small collections.
Spindletop oil photographs.
AC -299 Sophie Elizabeth Halliday Oil Industry Photograph Collection.
Preferred Citation:
AC -675, Small Photograph Collections, Tyrrell Historical Library.
Biographical/ Historical Note
A.S. (Albert S.) Clark was born in South Carolina in the late 19" century, and
married an Alabamian. They moved to Texas and started a family. At the time of
the 1900 census, Clark lived in the town of Holland, in Bell County, Texas, with
his family of four. His name first appears in the Beaumont city directory in 1900,
so sometime between the census and the publication of the directory he had
moved to Beaumont and begun a photography business. His name appears in
the city directory only until 1902, and in 1910, his home was still at Holland,
Texas. By 1930, he and his family had moved to Bartlett, Williamson County,
Texas, and he continued his occupation of farming.
Collection Scope and Content Note
These photographs depict Beaumont in the midst of the oil boom after the
discovery of Spindletop. There are three photographs of train station scenes,
showing crowds of Spindletop visitors in period dress, horse carriages, and train
cars. Three images depict the oil field with crowds of on -lookers and horses
grazing, one of which displays two oil derricks, with one of them spouting oil.
One image shows smoke filled air due to an oil fire that ignited at Spindletop.
The last two images are Beaumont street scenes, with horse carriages and
wagons, people in period dress, and buildings as they were in early 1900s
Beaumont. Blevins & Oswald Real Estate clearly appears in one of the street
scenes, and is listed in the 1901/1902 "Burchfield's Directory of the City of
Beaumont".
Subject Terms
Subjects:
Railroads—Beaumont, Texas.
Carriages and carts—Beaumont, Texas.
Buildings -1900-1910, Beaumont, Texas.
Petroleum industry—Beaumont, Texas.
Horses—Beaumont, Texas.
Persons:
. Clark, A. S. (Albert).
Locations:
Beaumont (Tex.).
Spindletop oil field (Beaumont, Tex.)
Genres:
Photographs.
Stats (copies).
Contents List
Box Title
Small Photograph Vallie Fletcher Taylor Spindletop Photograph
Collecl I Collection