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Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was ...
The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
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The Orcutt Oil Field is a large oil field in the Solomon Hills south of Orcutt, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Discovered in 1901 by William Warren Orcutt , it was the first giant field (over 100 million barrels (16,000,000 m 3 ) in ultimate recovery) to be found in Santa Barbara County, and its development led to the boom ...
The actress helped inspire the look for the famous logo, one of several actresses ordered by Columbia Pictures to pose as Miss Liberty, for which she was only paid $25. (Photo: Tim Boyle ...
The Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1895. The history of oil production in California began in the late 19th century. [1] In 1903, California became the leading oil-producing state in the US, and traded the number one position back-and forth with Oklahoma through the year 1930. [2]
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