Life in Bastrop County Texas in 1891-1943

Life in Texas from the 1800's to 1950

Life in Bastrop County Tx 1891-1943

Bastrop County, Texas 1891-1943 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers from Bastrop, Elgin, Smithville, Camp Swift, McDade and Wyldwood, Texas.

If you like these images, you can browse and view more than a thousand images of early life in Texas in our Historical Texas Collection. .

Snowstorm Smithville Tx 1920

Smithville Tx Street Scene 1920

Smithville Tx Fire Department 1920

Post Exchange Camp Swift Bastrop TX 1940

Lone Star Bakery Delivery Wagon Smithville

Cotton Field Near Smithville Cotton Field Near Smithville Tx

Camp Swift Bastrop County 1942

Colorado River Smithville Tx 1900

Bastrop Texas Railroad Station 1900

Bastrop County Courthouse 1940s

While fewer than half of the FSA images survive, the collection remains one of the most extensive pictorial records of life in Texas between 1935 and 1944.

Bastrop County Estates with Unclaimed Money

Estate of Harold Jones	$17,826	Smithville
Estate of TC Klink	$10,470	Bastrop
Estate of Anna M Fulton	$6,946	Elgin
Estate of Corey Carlson	$5,238	Elgin
Robert C Runkle Estate	$4,564	Bastrop

. . . See All Bastrop County Unclaimed Estates

Resources:

US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Vintage Texas Photos

Davick Services History Page (Facebook)

Bastrop Bulletin Board (Facebook)

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