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FORGOTTEN TEXAS

TEXAS VINTAGE PHOTOS

People, Places, Buildings & Scenes
Old photos and postcards submitted by readers, gathered from museum archives, private collections, founding family albums and other sources.
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Dalhart
  • Dalhart Old Photos 6-2-23
    Dan Whatley Collection
    • Coppell
  • Coppell 7-1-22
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    Coleman
  • Coleman Old Photos 6-25-22
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  • Victoria Old Photos 6-18-22
    Dan Whatley Collection
  • Texas Highway Department, Rusk - 1940s
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    Ballinger TX Old Photos
  • Ballinger Old Photos 4-18-22
    Dan Whatley Collection
    • Elm Mott
  • Elm Mott 2-22-22
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    Fredericksburg
  • Fredericksburg Old Photos 7-1-21
    Dan Whatley Collection
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    San Saba
  • San Saba Old Photos 2-8-21
    Dan Whatley Collection
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    Llano
  • Llano Old Photos Llano Co 1-8-21
    Dan Whatley Collection
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    Colorado City
  • Colorado City Old Photos Mitchell Co 9-14-20
    Dan Whatley Collection et al.
    • Eagle Pass
  • Eagle Pass Old Photos Maverick Co 9-22-14
    Dan Whatley Collection et al.
    • Yorktown
  • Yorktown Texas Old Photos DeWitt Co 9-12-20
    William Beauchamp Collection
    • San Angelo
  • San Angelo Tom Green Co 7-1-20
    M.C. Ragsdale Photographs
    Dan Whatley Collection
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    Collin
  • Collin County Depots 7-23-20
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    Brady
  • Brady McCulloch Co 6-30-20
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    New Braunfels
  • New Braunfels Comal Co 6-26-20
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    Terrell
  • Terrell Kaufman Co 5-30-20
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    San Benito
  • San Benito Cameron Co 1-8-20
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    Madisonville
  • Madisonville 12-27-19
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  • Thorp Springs Christian College, 1913-1914 9-3-19
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    Thorp Springs
  • Thorp Springs Christian College 1914-1915 Yearbook
    • 1880s
  • Texas in the 1800s 2-13-19
    The Malcolm Jacob Collection
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    ALICO building in Waco Texas
  • Ten Things You Should Know about…
    The ALICO Building of Waco     2-25-19
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    Bishop
  • Bishop Old Photos 12-4-18
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    Crowell
  • Crowell 10-14-18
  • Denison Vintatge Postcards 3-10-18
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    Snyder
  • Snyder Old Photos 10-4-17
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    Borger
  • Borger Ken Sharpe Collection 9-23-17
  • Borger Val Sandlin Collection 9-23-17
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    Borger
    Johnsville
  • Johnsville School Class Photo 9-19-17
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    Houston
  • Houston Old Photos 8-30-17
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    Dewees
  • Dewees 6-11-17
  • El Paso 6-10-17
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    El Paso
    Depots
  • Texas Depots 5-26-17
  • Ennis First Depot 5-26-17
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    Ennis
    Dallas depot
  • Dallas Union Station
  • Bremond Depot
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    Bremond
    Abilene
  • Abilene 4-27-17
  • Margaret 5-8-17
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    Margaret
    Ellinger
  • Ellinger 4-18-17
  • Midland 4-22-17
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    Midland
    Warrenton
  • Warrenton 3-8-17
  • Freyburg 3-8-17
    		• Freyburg
    La Grange
  • La Grange 1-20-17
  • La Grange Train Wrecks 1-20-17
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    RR bridge
    Cistern
  • Cistern 3-12-17
  • Texas City 1-7-17
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    Texas City

    Vintage Photos • Old Postcards:


    SPECIAL SUBJECTS
  • Texas Courthouses - Texas courthouses past and present

  • Razed in Texas - Texas' razed buildings
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    Bridges The Beauchamp Collection
    Vintage postcards ca 1910

  • Forgotten Texas Bridges:
    Series 1     | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13
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    Cotton gins
  • Cotton Gins in Texas:
    Series 1     | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
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  • Cotton Scenes in Texas:
    1     | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
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    Ancestors Gone Wild series
    		Special Feature

    "Ancestors Gone Wild" Series

    "If you can not get rid of the family skeleton,
    you may as well make it dance."
    - George Benard Shaw


    TEXAS OLD PHOTOS
    Listing by Towns
  • The Texas Flood of 1935
  • Abilene
  • Albany
  • Aledo
  • Alpine
  • Alvin
  • Amarillo
  • Ammonnsville
  • Anderson
  • Anson
  • Aransas Pass
  • Armstrong Colony
  • Ashby
  • Asherton
  • Austin Old Photos
  • Austin - Texas State Capitol
  • Ballinger
  • Balmorhea
  • Barnesville
  • Barstow in 1908
  • Beasley
  • Beaumont Bridge
  • Beaukiss School
  • Beeville
  • Bells - old depot
  • Bellville
  • Ben Ficklin
  • Ben Franklin
  • Bend
  • Bernardo
  • Bertram
  • Best - Texon Oil Field
  • Big Spring
  • Big Spring - Settles Hotel
  • Big Wells
  • Bishop
  • Blackwell
  • Blessing
  • Bloomington
  • Boerne
  • Boise
  • Booth
  • Borger
  • Bowie
  • Brady
  • Breckenridge
  • Bremond Depot
  • Bridge Valley
  • Briggs
  • Brownsville
  • Brownwood
  • Bug Tussle
  • Bunker Hill
  • Burkburnett
  • Burleson
  • Caesar
  • Cameron
  • Catarina
  • Cedar Station
  • Celina
  • Chalk Mountain
  • Chicota
  • Childress
  • Chillicothe
  • Circle Back
  • Cisco
  • Cistern
  • Clareville
  • Clarkson
  • Collegeport depot & locomotive
  • Collin County Depots
  • Colorado City
  • Columbus
  • Columbus - Colorado County Courthouse
  • Comanche
  • Comfort - The Altgelts of Comfort, San Antonio (and Argentina)
  • Commerce High School Class Of 1922
  • Coolidge
  • Coppell
  • Corpus Christi
  • Corsicana
  • Corsicana
  • Cottonwood
  • Crane
  • Crosbyton
  • Cross Plains - Cromer Hotel
  • Cuero
  • Cuero Turkey Trot
  • Dalhart
  • Dallas Union Station
  • Dalworthington Gardens
  • Denison
  • Desdemona
  • Dew
  • Dewees
  • Dixieland
  • Dubina
  • Eagle Lake
  • Eagle Pass
  • East Texas Oil Field Camp
  • Edinburg
  • El Campo
  • El Paso
  • El Paso’s Beautiful People: 1921-1946
  • El Toro
  • Electra
  • Electric City
  • Eliasville
  • Elkhart
  • Ellinger
  • Enloe
  • Ennis First Depot & aerial views
  • Eulogy
  • Falfurrias
  • Farmersville
  • Fayetteville
  • Finney
  • Flomot
  • Floresville
  • Fort Brown
  • Fort Stockton
  • Fowlerton
  • Francitas
  • Fredericksburg
  • Fredonia
  • Frelsburg
  • Freyburg
  • Friendship
  • Gainesville
  • Gasoline
  • Gibtown
  • Gladewater
  • Glidden
  • Goodnight
  • Gorman Historic Photos
  • Grand Prairie
  • Granger Through The Years
  • Granger
  • Gray Mule
  • Greenville
  • Happy
  • Harlingen
  • Haskell School
  • Hearne
  • Hedley
  • Helena Schoolhouse - Former Karnes County Courthouse
  • Henderson
  • Hereford
  • Hico
  • Hidalgo
  • Higgins 1947 Tornado
  • Higgins - Family
  • High Hill
  • Hochheim
  • Hog Drives
  • Hondo
  • Hostyn
  • Houston - Old Houston
  • Indian Gap
  • Indianola
  • Iraan
  • Iredell
  • Isom
  • Jacksboro
  • Jacksonville
  • Jarrell
  • Johnson City
  • Jourdanton
  • Junction
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  • Katemcy
  • Kenedy
  • Kerrick Schoolchildren
  • Kerrville
  • Kingsville - Henrietta M. King High School
  • Kirtley
  • Knickerbocker
  • Kress
  • La Grange
  • La Grange Train Wrecks
  • Lamesa Lobos - Baseball in West Texas 1948 - 1950
  • Langtry
  • Leakey's Canyon Theatre
  • Lilac 1901
  • Lipscomb
  • Lodi Oil Camp, c.1920s
  • Lolita
  • Longview - Northcutt Heights Elementary School
  • Lubbock
  • Lydia
  • Mackay
  • Madisonville
  • Margaret
  • Marlin
  • McAdoo
  • McLean
  • Midland
  • Milford
  • Mineola
  • Mineral Wells - Baker Hotel
  • Mineral Wells - Crazy Water Hotel
  • Mobeetie
  • Muldoon
  • Nacogdoches
  • New Bielau
  • New Boston
  • Nocona
  • Normanna
  • Ochiltree
  • Odessa
  • Olmos
  • Olney
  • Osage
  • Ottine
  • Palestine
  • Park
  • Paul's Store
  • Pearland
  • Pearsall
  • Pennington
  • Pharr
  • Phillips
  • Pilot Point
  • Port Arthur
  • Port Isabel
  • Poteet
  • Poynor
  • Praha
  • Pyote
  • Quanah
  • Quandrangle, San Antonio
  • Rabbs Prairie
  • Raisin
  • Rek Hill
  • Rice Ranch Community
  • Robert Lee
  • Rock Island
  • Rocksprings
  • Rockwall - USS Rockwall
  • Rosebud
  • Rosebud Texas Bank - 1901
  • Round Top July 4th Airplane Float
  • Roxana
  • Roznov
  • Rusk
  • Sagerton Schoolhouse & Class of 1905
  • San Angelo
  • San Antonio - Courthouse
  • San Antonio - Humble Oil Company
  • San Benito
  • San Diego
  • San Marcos
  • San Saba
  • San Saba River Bridge
  • Sanco
  • Sanderson
  • Sandoval
  • Santa Anna
  • Savannah
  • Scott
  • Scranton Academy
  • Seguin
  • Seguin Chronicles
  • Seminole
  • Seymour Texas Old Photos - Picking Cotton in 1943
  • Shafter
  • Sherwood
  • Shiner - Saloon
  • Sinton
  • Sipe Springs
  • Skidmore
  • Soash
  • Sonora
  • Smithville’s Colorado River Bridge
  • Smithville’s Colorado River Bridge 1900
  • Smithville - Railroad
  • Snyder
  • St John
  • Stamford
  • Star
  • Starr County - Lost Photos
  • Stephenville
  • Stowell
  • Sunshine Hill
  • Sutherland Springs
  • Sweetwater
  • Swiss Alp
  • Tahoka
  • Talpa
  • Taylor
  • Tenaha
  • Terrell
  • Tesnus
  • Texarkana
  • Texas City
  • Texas Depots
  • Thrall
  • Time
  • Timpson
  • Tivoli
  • Topsey
  • Tulia
  • Tyler - Photographic History
  • Tyler - Postcard History
  • Union Grove
  • Vattmann
  • Vernon
  • Violet - St. Anthony's Church
  • Waco
  • Waco - ALICO Building
  • Waco - Waco Steel Bridge
  • Warda
  • Warrenton
  • Waskom
  • Watterson
  • Weimar
  • Weldon
  • Wellington Katy Depots
  • Weser - Bridge washed awayr
  • Weslaco
  • Weslaco Architecture
  • Weslaco Fruit Fashion
  • Weslaco People
  • West Point - Texaco
  • West Texas in the 1940s
  • West Texas in the 1920s
  • Westminster
  • Wharton
  • White Deer
  • Whittenburg
  • Winchell
  • Winedale
  • Wingate
  • Wink
  • Wink Gas Stations
  • Yoakum
  • Yorktown
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    New Mexico
  • Coca-Cola Trucks and Bottling Works of SE New Mexico 1936-1965
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    More Favorite Features


    Barnesville
  • Barnesville Johnson Co 7-13-19
  • Elkhart 12-12-16
  • Kirtley 11-4-16
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    Kirtley
    Palestine
  • Palestine 10-19-16
  • Rock Island 4-23-16
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    Rock Island
  • Anderson Texas Olds Photos 4-1-16
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    Corsicana
  • Hostyn 1-1-16
  • Corsicana 11-2-15


    • Gorman
  • Gorman Historic Photos 10-1-15
    		•
    Gorman
    Moulton
  • Growing Up in Moulton, Texas by Olga Lueke Wagner Smothers 10-6-15
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  • Lydia 4-25-15
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    Praha
  • Praha 3-15-15
  • High Hill 3-15-15
  • Dubina 3-15-15
  • Ammonnsville 3-15-15
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  • Adamsville - Townsen Mills 3-9-15
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  • Barstow in 1908 1-2-15
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    Cotton
  • The Altgelts of Comfort, San Antonio (and Argentina) 8-25-14
  • Rabbs Prairie 7-23-14
  • Cotton Scenes in Texas: Series Seven 6-21-14
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  • El Campo 6-7-14
  • Corpus Christie Policemen 1940s photos courtesy Jo Ann Arnold 4-13-14
  • Elephantine Memories By Dianne West Short 3-2-14
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    Kingsville
  • Kingsville - Henrietta M. King High School 10-21-13
  • Sam Houston's trusted friend was born a slave by Murray Montgomery 8-27-13
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  • Kenedy 12-18-12
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    Lavaca
  • Lavaca County Old Photos Photos courtesy Friench Simpson Memorial Library 12-7-12
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    Fluvanna
  • Fluvanna, Texas Old Photos courtesy Dorothy Melton Knight 9-19-12
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    Men
  • Timeless Men of Colorado County 8-28-12
    Courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library

  • Timeless Women of Colorado County 8-31-12
    Courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library
    • Women
    Court Oak
  • Columbus Court Oak
    Photos courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library 9-1-12

  • Seymore Hopkins Co
    • Seymore
    houston
  • Houston Cotton Scenes 8-1-12
    Courtesy William Beauchamp Collection & rootsweb.com
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    Coliseum
  • Will Rogers Coliseum by Debbie M. Liles 7-2-12
    Arcadia Publishing

  • Houston’s Days of Yore by Bruce Martin 7-24-12
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    Houston
    sailors
  • Panhandle Sailors - Flatland Cousins Who Went to Sea 6-29-12
    The siren call of the sea seems to reach deep inland. Historically, it’s typical to find large numbers of naval personnel originating from land-locked regions.
    		•
    Baseball
  • My Father Zola 6-1-12
    Baseball, Love and a Love of Baseball
    A serialization of the writings of George Olsson Short
    (1920-2003)
    Chapter One
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    Seymour
  • Seymour Texas Old Photos - Picking Cotton in 1943 6-1-12
    Photos courtesy Jesse Suttles
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    Sutherland Springs
  • Sutherland Springs Old Photos 3-7-12
    Old photos courtesy James M Ziegler

  • Brownwood 3-12-12

  • Enloe 2-21-12
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    Helena
  • Helena Schoolhouse / Former Karnes County Courthouse Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 2-29-12

  • Chalk Mountain 3-3-12
    		•
    Chalk Mountain
    Thorp Springs
  • Thorp Springs Christian College 1914-1915 Yearbook Old photos courtesy Catherine Williams Hiesiger 1-16-12
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    Lobo
  • Lobo - 1915-1917 11-25-11
  • Rosebud Texas Bank 1901 photo courtesy Susan Bashore 12-30-11
    • Rosebud
  • Myself in the Texas Badlands 8-31-11
    The Best Mule-Drawn Machine Gun Outfit in Texas 1923
    Old photos of 230 mile trip from Marfa to Del Rio via Longfellow and Comstock
    Photos Courtesy K. Scheibal
    • Westminster
  • Westminster 10-13-11
  • Nocona 7-31-11
    • Austin
  • Austin Old Photos 9-9-11

  • Texas State Capitol 2-7-11

  • Big Wells 6-1-11

  • Catarina 6-21-11
    • Capitol
    Bridges Series 9
  • Forgotten Texas Bridges: Series Nine 4-1-11
  • Sipe Springs School 1914 4-2-11
  • Pearland 3-15-11
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    Pearland
    Wharton
  • Wharton County Old Photos 1-5-10

  • Texas Pete 1-28-11
    		•
    Pete


    Marable/Cockrum
  • Marable/Cockrum Families Collection 10-8-10

  • Post Old Photos 10-7-10

  • Marlin - East Texas Gas, 194711-2-10
    		•
    Post
    Gray Mule, Texas
  • Gray Mule Old Photos 9-15-10

  • Goodnight Old Photos 9-21-10
    • Goodnight, Texas
    Somerville
  • Sipe Springs 10-4-10
  • Grassyville -23-10
  • Woodsboro 4-25-10
  • Somerville Vintage Photos 4-13-10
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    Sipe Springs
    Smithville's second bridge
  • Smithville’s (2nd) Colorado River Bridge 1915-1950 6-1-10
  • Smithville’s (1st) Colorado River Bridge 1900 6-1-10
  • The Railroad in Smithville 6-4-10
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    Rosebud
  • Rosebud - Hauling Corn Crop to Market at Age 13 3-1-10
    "Growing Up On the Farm" by Henry Skupin
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    Tyler
  • Tyler - Postcard History1-1-10
  • Farmersville Vintage Photos 1-15-10
  • O'Quinn 1-21-10
    • O'Quinn
    Sweetwater
  • Sweetwater Vintage Photos 12-16-09
  • Sweetwater Vintage Postcards 12-16-09
  • Beeville 11-30-09
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    Tesnus
  • Tesnus 9-24-09
  • Clareville 11-6-09
  • Vernon 11-14-09
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    Cuero
    		William Beauchamp Collection:
  • Cuero Turkey Trot 4-20-09
  • Cuero 4-20-09
  • Fowlerton 4-12-09
  • Sinton 4-17-09
  • Hochheim 1-5-09
    		•
    Granger
  • Texas Treasures Come to Light in Tasmania - Wedding Photos of Doc Holiday and “Big Nose Kate”

  • Granger Through The Years 10-3-08
    The Martinets Collection

  • Goliad Vintage Photos 11-7-08
    William Beauchamp Collection
  • El Paso’s Beautiful People: 1921-1946 6-5-08
    The Casasola Photo Collection, UT El Paso
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  • Tyler, Texas 3-3-08
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    Sierra Blanca
  • Sierra Blanca 1-14-08
  • Scranton Academy1-31-08
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    Carbon
  • Carbon 12-13-07
  • Hog Drives 12-8-07
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  • The Texas Flood of 1935 11-7-07
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  • Tuleta 11-3-07
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  • Marion 10-31-07
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  • Milford 10-19-07
    Texas' first icehouse?
    • San Diego
  • San Diego 10-5-07
  • Hedley 10-12-07
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  • Lodi Oil Camp, c.1920s 9-1-07
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  • Brown's Humble Station, San Antonio, c.1938 9-13-07
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  • Raisin Family Photos, c.1900s 8-28-07

  • Colorado County Courthouse 8-25-07
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  • The Lamesa Lobos
    Baseball in West Texas 1948 - 1950
    7-8-07
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  • Kerrick Schoolchildren 7-15-07
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  • Life on a West Texas Paint Train in the 1940s 7-6-07
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  • Higgins 1947 Tornado 6-23-07
  • Higgins - Family 6-23-07
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  • Humble Oil Company 6-12-07
    • Dalworthington
  • Dalworthington Gardens 6-1-07
  • Locomotive Boiler Explosion 6-1-07
  • Phillips 6-2-07
  • Goodnight 5-28-07
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  • Desdemona 5-3-07
    "My grandfather Joe Duke was at one time known as Texas' youngest millionaire. A few years later he had no money left and was a pauper at the time of his death." - John Keith
  • Collegeport 5-7-07
  • Canyon Theatre, Leakey 4-7-07
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  • Star 4-2-07
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  • Manor, Texas c.1920s 1-10-07
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  • Childress and Vernon Family Photos c. 1914 1-4-07
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  • Briggs, Texas Tornado of 1906 11-7-06


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