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Texas Images - Table of Contents

  • Texas Towns

  • Texas Ghost Towns
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  • Texas Old Photos - From museum archives, private collections, founding family albums and sources like you.
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  • Ancestors Gone Wild

  • Texas Banks
    Buildings Worthy of Your Interest

  • Texas Bridges
    Iron bridges, railroad drawbridges, bascule bridges, causeways and suspension

  • Texas Cemeteries
    Texas cemeteries

  • Texas Churches
    Texas Churches

  • Coca Cola Signs in Texas

  • Cotton
    Cotton gins, cotton fields, cotton production

  • Texas Courthouses
    Texas courthouses

  • Texas Depots
    From "cathedral" railroad stations to the lowly switching tower

  • Texas Gas Stations
    Abandoned, obsolete, put to new uses, defunct or ficticious

  • Texas Grain Elevators, Silos ...
    Landmarks casting long shadows

  • Texas Hotels
    "Rooms With a Past"series:
    Texas hotels built before 1950.

  • Texas Jails
    The Texas county jails

  • Texas Lodges
    Lodges in Texas

  • Murals in Texas
    Vintage, historic, contemporary, and faded antique advertisments

  • Texas Museums
    Museums in Texas
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  • Texas Old Neon
    Old neon signs

  • Post Offices in Texas
    "Going Postal"
    Post offices in Texas

  • Post Office Murals

  • Texas Schoolhouses
    The most modest of Texas buildings

  • Texas Signs

  • Texas Ghost Signs
    Faded reminders of (usually) defunct products painted on the fronts and sides of buildings

  • Skyscrapers

  • Statues, Monuments
    Texas statues, monuments & shrines

  • Texas Stores
    Country Stores, General Stores, Drugs Stores, Feed Stores

  • Texas Then and Now

  • Texas Theatres
    America's most endangered buildings

  • Texas Historic Trees
    Historic trees of Texas & Texas famous trees

  • Texas Water Towers
    The unsung tin men of Texas small towns

  • Texas Windmills
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    Special Subjects

  • Victorian Secrets
    Painted Ladies, Gingerbread and Carpenter Gothic in Texas.

  • Rust in Pieces
    Texas’ Largest Outdoor Museum
    For those who find beauty in unusual places, or those who remember amber-winged fairy hood ornaments and pin-up girls encased in plastic steering wheel knobs, here’s our ode to bullet-ridden sheet metal. We casually present: Rust in Pieces.

  • Eagle Eyes of Texas
  • The Texas Silhouette
  • The Cowboy Silhouette
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    Texas Dance Halls
  • Texas Dance Halls
    Vintage & contemporary photos
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    Drive-in theatres
  • Texas Drive-In Theatres 12-12-17
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    Texas old photos
    		Texas Vintage Photos

    Forgotten Texas
    Gathered from museum archives, private collections, family albums and other sources.


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    Waco gas stations
  • Waco Old Gas Stations
    A photo essay by Richard Wilshire 11-29-21
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    		William Beauchamp Collection
  • Cotton Gins in Texas: Series 9 8-1-20
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    series 12
  • Gallery of Forgotten Texas Bridges: Series 12 12-1-18
  • Gallery of Forgotten Texas Bridges: Series 1 - 11
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    1880s
  • Texas in the 1800s 11-17-18
    The Malcolm Jacob Collection
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    		Barclay Gibson Collection
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 9 3-1-19
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 8 1-30-19
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 7 11-23-18
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 6 11-12-18
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    Series 1
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 5 8-1-18
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 4 7-1-18
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 3 6-20-18
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 2 12-8-17
  • Texas Theatre Old Neon Signs - Series 1 8-18-17
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    Bandera
  • Bandera Murals by Bill Stevens 11-3-18
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    MacKenzie Trail Monument
  • MacKenzie Trail Monument 7-7-18
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    motels
    		Photo Essays by Jimmy Dobson
  • Texas Motels, Old Neon & Ghost Signs 7-1-18
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    Big Spring
  • Big Spring Old Neon, Ghost Signs & Landmarks 1-1-19
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    Abilene
  • Abilene Texas - Old Neon, Ghost Signs & Landmarks 9-1-18
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    Midland
  • Midland Texas - Old Neon, Ghost Signs & Landmarks 8-5-18
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    Odessa
  • Odessa Texas - Old Neon & Ghost Signs 5-22-18


    		• Texas Rural Post Offices
    Barclay Gibson Collection
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 6 6-1-18
    • series 5
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 5 4-15-18
    • Post Office 4
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 4 2-1-18
    • Post Office 3
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 3 1-5-18
    • Post Office 2
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 2 11-12-17
    • Post Office 1
  • Under-appreciated Zip Codes - Series 1 10-11-17
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    Ruffini Brothers
  • The Fabulous Ruffini Brothers 1-1-18
    Frederick Ernst Ruffini and Oscar Ruffini


    • old neon
  • Texas Old Neon - Adventures with my 1972 Plymouth Cuda and my 67 Ford Mustang Fastback
    A photo essay by Jimmy Dobson 1-9-18
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    TX gas stations
  • Texas Gas Stations Series 3 - Adventures with my 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback
    A photo essay by Jimmy Dobson 4-21-18
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    TX gas stations
  • Texas Gas Stations Series 2 - Adventures with my 1972 Plymouth Cuda and my 67 Ford Mustang Fastback
    A photo essay by Jimmy Dobson 2-11-18
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    TX gas stations
  • Texas Gas Stations Series 1 - Adventures with my 1972 Plymouth Cuda and my 67 Ford Mustang Fastback
    A photo essay by Jimmy Dobson 10-3-17
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    Depots
  • Texas Depots - Old Photos 5-26-17
  • Ennis First Depot 5-26-17
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    Ennis
    Milford
  • Milford 5-24-17
    • Texas road trip
  • Texas Road Trip 2016 by Holly Gibson 6-6-16
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  • Anderson Texas Olds Photos 4-1-16
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    wildflowers
  • Mineral Wells - Baker Hotel 1-5-16
  • Wildflowers of Fayette County 4-26-15
    • Greenwood
  • Dallas - Greenwood Cemetery 7-13-13
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  • Coastal Birds of Texas 1-7-13
  • Coastal Birds of Texas -II
  • Coastal Birds of Texas -III 1-30-11
  • Coastal Birds of Texas IV 12-3-14
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    Coastal Birds
    Lavaca
  • Lavaca County Old Photos 12-7-12
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    Evergreen
  • Evergreen Cemetery - "Jesus in Cowboy Boots" 12-1-12
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    Fluvanna
  • Fluvanna, Texas Old Photos 9-19-12
  • Once in a Blue Moon 9-2-12
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    Blue moon
    Court Oak
  • Columbus Court Oak 9-1-12
  • Columbus Oak - Texas' Second Largest Live Oak 9-1-12
    • Men
  • Timeless Men of Colorado County 8-28-12
  • >Timeless Women of Colorado County 8-31-12
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    Women
    Drugstores
  • Drugstores in Texas 5-1-12
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    Cotton Gins
  • Cotton Gins In Texas - Series 6 4-19-12
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    Kilgore
  • Kilgore Post Office Murals:"Music of the Plains, Contemporay Youth, Pioneer Saga & Drilling for Oil" 3-13-12
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    Route 66
    		Resurrecting the Ghosts of Route 66 by Noel Kerns
  • Part I: Oklahoma City to Shamrock, Texas
  • Part II: Shamrock to Amarillo, Texas
  • Part III: Route 66 from Amarillo, Texas to Endee, NM
    • Ghost Towns by night
  • Texas Ghost Towns by Night
    The Nocturnal Photography of Noel Kerns
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