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Aerial View: Sul Ross Normal College

Description: Copy negative of two images. The top image is an aerial view of Sul Ross Normal College, now Sul Ross State University. The buildings are all multiple stories. Manicured trees and bushes line the circular drive and the driveway leading up to it from a road. The lower aerial image is an expanded view of the same location. In the foreground are the buildings of the image above with several other buildings clustered together. Behind these buildings is an open landscape leading up to mountain… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[House of W. K. Ellis, Glenn Springs, Texas]

Description: Postcard of the House of W. K. Ellis, Glenn Springs, Texas and the Squad of [the] 14th [U.S. Army] Calvary. Glenn Springs, Texas is located within the Big Bend National Park in the southwest part of the State of Texas. The Big Bend National Park includes the entire Chisos Mountain Range and stretches into Mexico within the state of Chihuahua and the state of Coahuila, Mexico. The entire park is approximately 1252 square miles in area. The image shows ten U.S. Soldiers standing in front of t… more
Date: 1916~
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Adobe Cook-House at Glenn Springs, Texas]

Description: Postcard of an "Adobe Cook-House at Glenn Springs, Texas in which 9 U.S. Soldiers made their Defense against Mexican Bandits". These are some, if not all, all of the same soldiers that are also pictured in postcard WH PC 189-001 https://edit.texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth187877/ The adobe structure in this image appears to have suffered some fire damage. We cannot positively identify the adobe structure in this postcard as being the same adobe structure in postcard WH PC 189-001 how… more
Date: 1916~
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Picture of Big Bend desert landscape]

Description: Photograph of mountain peaks outside of Alpine, Texas, which are part of the Davis Mountain range. A desert landscape and a grove of trees are visible in the foreground. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "This is a land which has fought against those who have tried to make it home since its creation" (p. 1).
Date: 1969
Creator: Edwards, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Windmill on the Rio Grande River]

Description: Photograph of an old settlement with a windmill on the Rio Grande River in Maravillas Canyon. Various plant life is growing in the surrounding area and there are mountains located in the background.
Date: March 23, 1978
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University
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[Alpine, Texas: Cowboy Poetry in the High Desert]

Description: This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Alpine, Texas. The footage covers: high desert and mountainous landscapes; interviews with locals about their trades, such as cowboy poetry and agate artistry; sites of cultural interest, such as downtown Alpine, Big Bend National Park and Museum, McDonald Observatory and an art fair; and music and dancing in a local bar.
Date: unknown
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 43 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Media Library

[News Script: Last frontier]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the history and landscape of Big Bend and its nearby communities in West Texas.
Date: April 29, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cavalry Camp in the Davis Mountains]

Description: Photograph of a cavalry camp in the Davis Mountains consisting of what appear to be several rows of horses and a row of tents at the foot of the mountain. A text on the front of the photograph reads "157- 1st Cavalry Brigade in Camp, Davis Mountains, Alpine, Tex."
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Cavalry Camp in Davis Mountains]

Description: Photograph of a cavalry camp in the Davis Mountains with what appear to be rows of barracks in the foreground and tents and wagons at the foot of the mountain behind them. Mountains are visible in the background and a text on the front of the photograph reads "157 - 1st Cavalry Brigade in Camp. Davis Mountains Alpine, Tex."
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Cavalry Camp in Mountains]

Description: Photograph of a military camp in the mountains with rows of what appear to be horses in the foreground and tents and wagons at the base of the mountain in the background. A handwritten note on the front of the photograph reads "1st Cavalry Brigade in Camp, Davis Mountains, Alpine, Tex."
Date: 1915~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

[Big Bend District]

Description: Postcard of the Rio Grande River bending around an unknown area in the Big Bend National Park. The Big Bend National Park is in Brewster County, Texas and contains approximately 801,163 acres of protected land according to the National Park Service website. Big Bend is named as such because of the many and vast curves that the Rio Grande river takes in this area of the Texas southwest. There is an unidentified wood shack in the foreground of the image. And on the other side of the river, th… more
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Three individuals resting near a canyon at Big Bend National Park]

Description: Photograph of three individuals resting near a canyon at Big Bend National Park. One of the individuals is lying on the side of the ridge, the individual beside them is seated talking with the third individual who is standing and leaning on their left leg forward.
Date: 2001
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.249819 -103.250164
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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