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Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Photograph by the U.S. Navy
(via A Fork in the Railroad: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
March 1943. “Sumnerfield, Texas. Brakeman running back to his train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas, and Clovis, New Mexico, as it is ready to start again, after having waited in a siding.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
(via Peewee Posse: 1936 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
Summer 1936. “Dalworthington Gardens, Texas.” Half-pints in ten-gallon hats in a “subsistence homestead project” established under the authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Photo by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
December 1960: Children play in the head of a large Santa - later to be perched on top of Joske’s of Texas Department Store.
Photo: A. Y. Owen//Time Life Pictures/Getty
(via Texas voter ID law struck down - The Washington Post)
it’s a start…
(via The Yellow Ooze of Texas: 1943 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
May 1943. “Melted sulfur from the wells pouring into relay station. Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas.” 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
