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48 Amazing Photos Of The Galveston Hurricane Of 1900, The Deadliest Disaster In American History
Amazing Photos Showing Life in Texas migrant camps During the 1940s
Migrant Camps, or Weedpatch Camp, has its origins in the migrations during the drought that caused the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. Oklahoma was especially hard hit by the drought and many of the farmers there left. They migrated to California where they moved from farm to farm looking for work as farm laborers. TheyContinue reading “Amazing Photos Showing Life in Texas migrant camps During the 1940s”
32 Vintage Photos of Houston, Texas in the 1950s
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas, fourth-most populous city in the United States, most populous city in the Southern United States, as well as the sixth-most populous in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico,Continue reading “32 Vintage Photos of Houston, Texas in the 1950s”
32 Vintage Photos of Dallas, Texas in the 1950s
Dallas is a major city in the state of Texas and is the largest urban center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. Here below are vintage images capturing everyday life of this city in the 1950s.
20 Incredible Color Photographs Showing Life in Texas in the Early 1940s
On the eve of the Great Depression, most Texans lived on farms or ranches or in small towns. Though the previous decade saw successes in oil, the economy was still dominated by agriculture – cotton in the north, livestock in the west and a growing citrus industry in the south. When the stock market crashedContinue reading “20 Incredible Color Photographs Showing Life in Texas in the Early 1940s”
