Life in Texas from the 1800's to 1950 |
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Life in Taylor County Texas from 1900 to 1950Taylor County, Texas from 1900 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers.
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![]() Abilene Texas Volunteer Firemen J. D. Hailey, Chief Clinton, Bob Lane, Lee Lane, Joe Perry and Albert Lane are pictured in this highly detailed photo |
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![]() Salesmen for the Abilene Candy Company proudly line up beside their company cars in 1939. |
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![]() Eleven players on the Abilene High School football team in 1923. |
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![]() 1923 Abilene High School Football Team on the Way to Fort Worth |
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![]() Kelso, Smith, Coombes, Harvey, Gray, West, Freeman, Gavin, Bryan, Robbins, Coffman, Kelso, heath, and Howell made up the Abilene Boys High School Glee Club in 1923 . . . look closer |
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![]() Four Abilene High School students pose beside period car in 1948 |
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![]() Horse-drawn ice wagon from the Abilene Ice Company parked on a residential dirt street in 1910 while driver delivers a block of ice to resident's ice box. |
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![]() Cox Typewriter Exchange salesman fix flat tire on 1940's truck. |
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![]() At a Polo Match in 1939 Abilene Texas a boy sells Coca-Cola from metal cooler. In the 1930s West Texans from Taylor County enjoyed polo and horse and auto racing at Fair Park in Abilene . . . |
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![]() Travelers wait for train at the Buffalo Gap train station in 1920. |
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![]() Children look out window as older sister or mother drives hoping to escape the drought. |
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![]() After he was freed, former slave Green Cumby settled in Abilene Texas |
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![]() Horse-drawn sprinkler wagon helps keep the dust down on the dirt streets of Abilene Texas in 1900. This one also serves as a moving billboard for the Campbell's Store. |
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![]() McMurray College Coach R M Medley with players Taylor, Osborn Park, Isaacs, Bowers, Tharp, Miller, Newton, Asst. Coach Pratt, Corbin, Roberts, Edwards, Brown, H V Hodges, Patterson, Mitchell, Hunt, Wharton, Hale and Pool in 1927. |
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![]() McMurry College Football Coach R. M. Medley with players Campbell, Hale, W. Hill, Fitzgerald, Farmer, Hunt, Bigby, Bowers, West, Young, McCandless, Brown, Donaldson, Peeples, Wood, Self, Newton, D. Hill, Ledbetter, Harkrider, Murphy, and Meader in 1924 |
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![]() Green Gate Tourist Camp set up a soda pop stand from the back of a pickup truck at this 1939 polo match in Abilene Texas. Polo player garners attention from boys and men as he walks away. |
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![]() Large crowd gathers in front of Thornton Drug Store in Abilene Texas in 1920. Men climbed on top of trucks and rooftops to get a glimpse of something. |
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![]() Train Arrives at Station in Trent Texas 1940 |
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Resources: Early Life in Texas County by County Books about Texas People and Places True Stories of Amazing People and Places in Texas (Facebook) Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon) Vintage Texas Photos (eBay) |
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