True Stories of Amazing People and Places in Texas

Bandera County, Texas from 1800's to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers.

Sometime in 1910, an unknown photographer captured this incredible image of an ox-drawn covered wagon on main street in Bandera Texas

In 1931 two women and a man posed in front of Saint Stanislaus Rectory in Bandera with what appears to be a little girl reclining in the raised flower bed

Sometime in the 1950s a group of tourists ride horses on the trail in front of the Lost Valley Swimming Pool in Bandera Texas

In 1907 Bandera County pioneer Ezra Alpheas Chipman was captured on film with some of his family in this large photo.

Very large photo of the Bandera Texas football team in 1938

Davenport Store in Bandera in 1900

In 1900 Proprietors of the Davenport Store in Bandera Texas posed for this huge highly-detailed photo
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Frontier Times Museum in 1940

Interior View of Frontier Times Museum in Bandera Texas in 1940

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Bandera Street Scene in 1940s

Vintage cars line the street in front of Corner Drug Store, Bottles Stores and  and the OST in 1940 Bandera Texas

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