/r/texashistory
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Texas!
A place to share and discuss Texas history.
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A farmer's family in town on a Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas, 1939. Though automobiles were available, many families couldn't afford them, making scenes like this a common sight in Texas at the time.
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Native Americans in Fredericksburg. November 20, 1913
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An oxen train moving down Main Street in Hico, Hamilton County, 1890.
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Internment Camp Kenedy
I’m writing a research paper on Camp Kenedy and I’ve been looking for a picture of the location of the camp. Maybe someone on here is better at finding that stuff than I am. All I could find was Two historical markers but I want to see like an outline of the camp grounds compared to today. Can anyone help find where the camp was located?
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Metallica on stage at small club in Austin called The Nightlife on August 24, 1983 during the Kill 'em All for One tour. This was their first major concert tour and their visit to Austin came just one month after the release of their debut album.
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President Franklin D Roosevelt (in the rear of the boat with a fishing pole) on a fishing trip just off the coast of Port Aransas. Holding the fish is his son Elliot and fishing guide Barney Farley. May 3, 1937.
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A dishwasher at hamburger stand at the Gonzales County Fair. Photo taken by Russell lee in November 1939.
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President Lyndon B Johnson with his grandson Patrick and dog Yuki at his ranch in Stonewall in 1968.
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1899 photo of a brick laying crew laying bricks around lines on West 6th Street in Austin. Above are telegraph and trolley lines. In the background can be seen one of Austin's moontowers.
The penciled in lines indicate where someone had intended to crop the photo. Austin's moontowers were built in 1894-1895.
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The cast of the cannibalistic Sawyer family in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). The Sawyer home was originally located in Round Rock before moving to Kingsland.
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Ad for McAllen and Pharr, Texas Pizza Huts AND bowling! (July 11, 1985)
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Photograph of a north view of Houston Street at the 900 block, Fort Worth (August 1983)
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Denton (Texas) city employee painting a fire hydrant blue (July 1982)
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A gas station in Galveston, The Texas Company (which would later become Texaco), with a sign near the road that read ''Washing and Greasing Cars''. Photo dated 1927.
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A cowboy watches over his herd as an ascendant Dallas skyline looms on the horizon (William Langley, 1945)
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The induction of evil, a large initiation of new Ku Klux Klan members in Houston on December 8, 1921. In April of 1921 the Texas State House introduced legislation to ban the KKK, but only eight representatives signed, all of whom would receive death threats.
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Downtown Kingsville, Kleberg County. Photo dated September 7, 1908.
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1920 Democratic State Convention of Texas
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Businesses on Texas Ave. in Kemah, Galveston County, along Clear Creek during a typical high tide. April 20, 1973.
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Downtown Orange, Texas. Photo dated May 1943
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President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a crowd in Fort Worth. April 8, 1905
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A prescription for one pint of Whiskey issued by a Dr. Davis in Terrell, Texas (Kaufman County) on February 10, 1928, and filled by the Pharmacist that same day. During prohibition such a prescription was one of the few legal ways to obtain alcohol.
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Workers excavating for the foundation of the Lampasas County Courthouse in 1882.
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Braniff International Airways L-188 Electra (serial # N9707C) at Dallas Love Field in 1968. On May 3rd of that year this aircraft would breakup mid-flight near Dawson, Navarro county, killing all 85 on board.
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Waco fire department, circa 1890.
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