[Johnny Wigley at Stock Show]

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Photograph of a boy with a cowboy hat and a sign hanging from his neck with the number "1" written on it, standing to the left of a cow and holding the animal's lead rope. Two men are standing to the right of the cow, also in cowboy hats and western attire. The boy is identified on the back as Johnny Wigley, grand champion of the Houston Livestock Show, and the two men are identified as Bill Williams and Edgar Brant. The cow has a sign across its back with the name of the stock show and the words, "Grand … continued below

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1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm.

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Creator: Unknown. 1953.

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Photograph of a boy with a cowboy hat and a sign hanging from his neck with the number "1" written on it, standing to the left of a cow and holding the animal's lead rope. Two men are standing to the right of the cow, also in cowboy hats and western attire. The boy is identified on the back as Johnny Wigley, grand champion of the Houston Livestock Show, and the two men are identified as Bill Williams and Edgar Brant. The cow has a sign across its back with the name of the stock show and the words, "Grand Champion" on it.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm.

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"Left: Johnny Wigley - Goldthwaite, Tx. Grand Champion Houston Livestock Show 1953, middle- Bill Williams, Right Edgar Brant, Orang Texas Millionaire who bought [illegible] champion"

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[Johnny Wigley at Stock Show], photograph, 1953; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1131527/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.

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