Title: Jazz-age boomtown
First published: 1997
Description: The book is a photographic essay about a 1920s West Texas oil boomtown, Breckenridge, using 100 of the images of local photographer, Basil Clemons.  On a larger scale, however, it is a photographic record of the cultural roots of modern America.  Most historians would agree that modern American culture began after World War I and took shape in the 1920s.  The twenties featured such modern cultural fare as widespread auto ownership, big-time sports, and the first mesmerizing mass media--radio and cinema.  Basil Clemons never saw himself as the photographer of modern American culture, but that is what he has become to us.  His photographs will remain American--and Texas--treasures, because they so vividly captured that formative modern, national, Jazz-Age culture.   (The authors)
Subjects: History, Petroleum industry and trade, Photograph collections, Pictorial works, Popular culture, Social life and customs, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, history, local
Places: Arlington, Breckenridge, Breckenridge (Tex.), Texas
People: Basil Clemons
Time periods: 1920s, 20th century
LC classification: F394.B78 R63 1997