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Commemorative Posters Series

The images associated with Texas are as varied as the landscapes of the Lone Star State itself. Oil derricks and church steeples. Native dress and frontier buckskins. Football fields and battlefields. 

For our centennial celebration, we've created a series of 12 commemorative posters highlighting some of the more visually interesting items from our vast collection of Texana. Read on to see the full images that inspired our creations, and download your own copy of the posters as a PDF here.

Agriculture

Description: Worswick-Haardt Cotton Harvester and field hands in a cotton field
Photographer: Fred Gildersleeve
Date: ca. 1910
Original image location: The Texas Collection > Gildersleeve-Conger Collection

Foodways

Description: Servers at the Fairview Drive In, 4030 Bosque Boulevard, Waco, Texas.
Date: ca. 1955
Original image location: General Photo File > Waco-Restaurants-Fairview Drive In.  

Native American Heritage

Description: “Spirit of the Buffalo" performance at Baylor University Native American Student Association "benefit powwow"
Date: April 2000
Photographer: Baylor University Photography
Original image location: Baylor University Photography 35mm film archive (AM-930)

Music

Description: First page of original manuscript for "Texas, Our Texas"
Date: 1924
Creators: William John Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright
Original item location: The Texas Collection archives

Oil and Gas Industry

Description: Roughnecks drilling for oil, unidentified Texas town
Date: ca. 1910
Photographer: E.C. Blomyer
Original item location: The Texas Collection > E.C. Blomyer Photographic Collection > Central and South Texas > Oil and Natural Gas Fields

Waco

Description: Aerial photograph of Waco, Texas downtown
Date: ca. 1952
Photographer: Unknown
Original item location: The Texas Collection > John Oscar Birgen "Swede" Johnson Papers > Railroad General > Waco

Tourism

Description: Colorized postcard featuring image of beach at Galveston, Texas
Date: ca. 1930s
Creators: Unknown
Original item location: The Texas Collection > General Postcard Collection > Galveston, Texas

Football

Description: Publicity photo of Baylor University head football coach Grant Teaff, taken at Baylor Stadium
Date: 1972
Photographer: Baylor University Photography
Original item location: The Texas Collection > Baylor University Photography 35mm film archive (PR-116)

History of The Texas Collection

Description: Portrait of William Hazen Aynesworth
Date: 1927
Creators: N.R. Brewer
Original item location: The Texas Collection > Fine Arts Collection > Painting #41

African American Heritage

Description: Photo of Emma Franklin and her son, on their farm in Reagan, TX
Date: ca. 1980
Photographer: Myron Wood
Original item location: The Texas Collection > Joan Sanger and Myron Wood Photographic Collection > People > Identified

Religion

Description: Postcard featuring an image of a stained glass window at Central Christian Church, Eleventh and Washington, in Waco, TX
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Original item location: The Texas Collection > General Postcard Collection > Waco, Texas > Churches

Hispanic Heritage

Description: St. Francis Catholic Church, Waco, TX
Photographer: Unknown
Date: ca. 1980
Original image location: The Texas Collection > General Photo File > Waco-Churches-St. Francis

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