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Life in Hall County Tx 1850 to 1950
Hall County, Texas in 1937 to 1939 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers.
You can browse and view more than a thousand images of early life in Texas in eBay's Historical Texas Collection. . . |
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![]() Very rare photo of famous musician Bob Wills picking cotton with his cousin in the mid 1920s |
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![]() Hundreds of people gathered at the First National Bank to celebrate the first train into Turkey Texas in 1928 |
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![]() Very clear photo of a drug store in Turkey Texas shows two soda jerks, a man with his two sons and two men raising their drinks in a toast in 1928. The image is so clear that even the man reflected in the bar back mirror is recognizable |
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![]() Three well dressed cowboys on their horses in this photo from 1895 in Hall County Texas. One horse appears to have bolted at flash . . . take a look |
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![]() Sometime in the 1930s a father and son stopped their work in Hall County Texas to pose for this photo by famed photographer Dorothea Lange with their horse-drawn planter . . . see it full size |
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![]() Horse drawn carriages, wagons and shoppers filled the dirt street in this photo of downtown Memphis Texas the way it was in 1908 . . . Look closer |
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Refugee family of five on the Texas Panhandle near
Memphis Texas carrying everything they own in a hand cart and baby buggy
in 1937.
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![]() In 1937 a motel in Memphis Texas painted an ad on the roof of a tractor driver's house to let travelers know the motel was just 3 miles away and had reasonable rates. |
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![]() Musicians Bob Wills and Buck Holligan at the John Wills farm near Turkey Texas in the mid-1920s. Photo from San Antonio Rose: The Life And Music Of Bob Wills ... see full size |
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![]() On August 11 1943 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys posed in front of their bus as young girls leans forward to get into the picture . . . See it full size |
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![]() Barefoot girl struggles to draw water from well in Hall County in 1939 in this large highly-detailed photo. |
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Resources: Early Life in Texas County by County Books about Texas People and Places Amazing People from Texas County by County Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon) Vintage Texas Photos (eBay) Postcards from the Panhandle (Facebook) |
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Books about Hall County People and Places | |||||
Hall County Estates with Unclaimed Money
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