The interior of a Whataburger in the mid or late 1970's. Note the prices.

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Photo from the last total solar eclipse over Texas, courtesy of the Texas State Parks History and Archeology Department on Facebook

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The entire city Austin, 1844

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Austin, before there were skyscrapers. Early to Mid 1970's.

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Laying artificial turf on a highway divider in Austin at the intersection of RM 2222 and Mopac in 1971. This experimental use of AstroTurf proved to be a bust as it accumulated dirt and oil, garbage stuck to its oily surface, and the bright green rapidly became a nasty gray color.

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A Little Bit of Texas Will Forever Be British: Graves of Royal Air Force pilot trainees who died and were buried in Terrell, Tx. during WWII

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the 1980 Texas heatwave .

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In memory of Governor Ann Richards (9/1/1933–9/13/2006)

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In memory of Governor Ann Richards (9/1/19339/13/2006)

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Barton Springs, Austin. Early 1920's.

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Dallas - Central Expressway 1959

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Hard to imagine, but ZZ Top once were YOUNG!

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The Great Tamale Incident of 1976. President Ford, running for his second term eats his first tamale, husk and all, nearly choking. San Antonio, April 9, 1976.

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Padre Staples Mall Luby’s in Corpus Christi in 1970

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45 minutes before needing to leave for work, beautiful Spring day, big patch of bluebonnets, an empty garden chair, and a giant book on Texas History. That’s a good combination!

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The interior of a Whataburger in the mid or late 1970's. Note the prices.

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March is Texas History Month. So many events happened in March that shaped our state’s history, and yes, Texas History Month is an actual thing. Looking forward to reading some essays on our state’s past.

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An amazed Boris Yeltsin during his unscheduled visit to a Randall's supermarket in Houston, September 16th 1989.

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All that's left of the tiny town of Security, TX is this sign at the train tracks. 2022

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, author, science communicator, and television host, (at right) at the University of Texas pursuing his masters in 1980. His friends are future astronomer Steve Kawaler and Jacqueline Green, now a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Congress Avenue, Austin, 1976.

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The very first Chili's Restaurant, located on Greenville Avenue in Dallas. 1975

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The Lunch counter at Woolworths Department Store. San Antonio, Texas. March 16,1960. This was among the first places in south to allow black and white customers to eat together.

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Janis Joplin in Port Arthur, 1970, she had returned for her 10 year high school reunion which was held on August 14th. She would be found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel a little less than two months later.

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Lt. J.B. Keeley of Houston, Texas, is raised by Ukrainian girls in celebration of their liberation from forced labor in a German factory in Schirmeck by American troops of the 6th Army Group, 7th Army, on Dec. 20, 1944. (Repost with corrected Title)

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A horse drawn Michelin Tires advertisement in Houston, with the original rubber Michelin Men, c.1910.

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Nirvana in Dallas at the Trees Club with Kurt Cobain closest to the camera. The Nevermind album had come out just three weeks earlier. October 19th, 1991

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That Famous Aggie T. Every man in the formation was a Texas A&M Graduate who had served during World War II, and are all in uniform. November 10th, 1945

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The Twin Sisters are a pair of cannons used during the Texas Revolution. Among the most famous artillery in Texas military history, the Come and Take It cannon started the revolution at the Battle of Gonzales and the Twin Sisters won it at the Battle of San Jacinto.

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A military parade down Main Street through Houston in honor of a Confederate reunion. May 21, 1895.

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Traces of Texas tweeted out the same image, using my caption, two days after I posted it on this sub. Frankly I'm flattered.

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Sharecroppers in South Texas during the 1930's.

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Members of the Southwest Texas State Normal School baseball team in 1908. The school went through several name changes over the years and is now known as Texas State University.

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Population of Texas communities circa 1850 (based on what official documented records exist)

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George Strait - Orange Blossom Special - Mount Pleasant 1983.

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A rainy day in Lubbock, June 1972.

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Germany's telegraph from Adolf Hitler to New London, Texas. 1937. New London School Explosion After this mercaptan was added to gas for it to smell.

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The lynching of a man from the Hanging Tree at Fifth and Front Street in Orange, Texas. 1888. Note that there are even children present in this photo.

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Stewart Beach, Galveston Island, July 1972

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The Alamo As A Warehouse-late 1800’s

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The largest ranch in the United States from 1885 to 1912 - The XIT Ranch, covering 3 million acres over 200 x 30 miles of ten panhandle counties.

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Austin High school's graduating class on 1887, with their teacher in the middle. Names of the students in the comments.

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A Drugstore in Leakey (Real County) during the noon hour, May 1973.

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Soldiers enjoying a Christmas Dinner at Camp Logan, 1917. Today the site of this World War I era training camp is a park in Houston.

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Poll Tax from Bexas County. 1995. Per my grandmother this was two bags worth of groceries. Roughly $21 In today's currency.

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Whataburger in Corpus Christi, 1964. The now famous W logo wouldn't be introduced for another 3 years.

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HEB parking lot on South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi. 1981. Any car guys want to see how many of these you can identify?

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Southbound 75 in North Dallas in the 1980's

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Texas A & M's Ross Hall in 1903

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Downtown Uvalde in the 1940's.

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United Klan Meeting. Vidor, Texas, August 20, 1971

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An aerial view of the Texas State Fair in 1936.

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Segregated drinking fountains in Mansfield, 1956.

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Turned out so amazing and I am beyond happy.

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Pyote Panthers football, Pyote, 1951. My Grandad, Bill Carter playing Left End

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Map of Austin, in 1935. Note that Congress ends at Live Oak, just north of Oltorf. The unnamed road at the northernmost border is W Koenig Lane.

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Just arrived in the mail!

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Looking down Austin Avenue in Waco. 1913

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A Cafe/Grocery Store in Robstown, Nueces County, 1939

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San Angelo in the mid-1880's

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From a memoir of early Llano, TX that I am currently reading...😳😳

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A view from Galveston of the aftermath of the devastating explosion in Texas City on April 16, 1947. In the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, a consignment of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the SS Grandcamp exploded. via @tracesoftexas on Twitter

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Chili's location at Greenville and Meadow in Dallas in 1975. Opened by Shelby's then son in law Larry Lavine. Lavine hung around Shelby during his Chili Cook Offs .

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Ku Klux Klan parade down Walker Street, Breckenridge, Stephens County, February 25, 1922

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Downtown San Antonio, early 1930's.

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Santa Rita No. 1, the 'saint of the impossible'. The oil well that started the University of Texas permanent fund, and proved their was oil in the Permian Basin. After 650 days of drilling, finally struck black gold in 1923 with a blowout, and continued to operate for six decades.

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Artist depiction of the Great Hanging at Gainesville. In October 1862 41 men were hung after a sham trial. Their alleged crime was suspected disloyalty to the Confederacy.

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The aftermath of the 1947 Texas City disaster. This parking lot was a quarter of mile away from the explosion. In total 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department, were killed. April 16th, 1947

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German war prisoners at Camp Wallace, Texas, shown as they pause briefly with their mowing machine during a grass cutting detail near the camp. 30 March, 1943.

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18-month-old Jessica McClure, having just been freed from the well where she had been trapped for 58 hours, is rushed to an ambulance. Her ordeal and rescue was watched around the world. Midland, October 16, 1987

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A mid-1970s view of downtown Austin, taken from the south bank of the river.

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Suffragists getting ready to campaign for the vote in Texas. Eleanor Brackenridge and Mrs. H.P. Drought are inside the car. The home in the background belongs to Brackenridge and her brother, George. Circa 1916 or 1917.

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Germans at Crystal City Internment Camp 1944

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Ray's Cafe in Howe, Grayson County, in 1955. This photo was originally taken for that year's high school yearbook.

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Stephen F. Austin to Mary Austin Holley, 1831. In this statement, he is referring to the issue if Mexico did not allow Texas to be an independent state with-in Mexico.

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The Alamo circa 1895. via @tracesoftexas on Twitter

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Del Rio News-Herald. March 22, 1949.

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Funeral for tornado victims in Nevada, Texas, in Collin County, 1927. The tornado (a half mile wide F4) struck on May 9th. The number of casualties seems to be in dispute.

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View through the window of the Texas School Book Repository Building on the sixth floor where the shot was fired 58 years ago today. The X on the pavement below marks where the bullet struck.

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Stanton Street in El Paso's 2nd Ward. June 1972.

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Gene Warrick and son Sabin Warrick at what was Warrick's Hot Links, Pittsburg, Texas

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A radiant Ima Hogg circa 1900. Ima was a philanthropist, patron & art collector. In 1895, her aunt, trying to ensure that Ima didn't get too full of herself, said to her Ima, you are not pretty. You will never be pretty, and you must never let anyone tell you so. I respectfully disagree.

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Dublin Bottling Works 1897, Dublin, Texas. Would bottle Dr Pepper till Dr Pepper Snapple Group sued for stepping outside of approved territory.

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This photo shows four men who were reportedly a part of the posse that broke Al Lackey out of the Blanco County Jail on Aug. 26, 1885, and hanged him for the murder of six people.

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The corner of Main and Akard in downtown Dallas, two hours after the lynching of Allen Brooks. March 3, 1910.

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A parade of the Ku Klux Klan through Beaumont, Jefferson County, November 10, 1922.

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How do YOU like them links?

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Does anyone know what this building is in Rowena?

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Camp County SO's First Negro Deputy - Noble Smith July 1971.

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Two icons of Texas History at the Broken Spoke in Austin. May 3, 2022.

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Anyone know what year this would of been?

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Views upon slavery in Texas related by Amos Pollard of Columbia, TX (present day West Columbia) in 1835. Amos would be killed at the Alamo, March 6, 1836.

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Interesting shirt I bought

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My grandad wrote this book on Indian attacks and kidnappings in and around Parker County. Has anyone read it? I did many years ago. Turns out he had many copies hidden away.

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I was doing some research, and I found this letter that my great-great-great-great-grandfather wrote to Stephen F. Austin.

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183 years ago today, while cannons were flashing at the Alamo and Texas revolutionaries were meeting their first major defeat of the war near San Patricio, a mixed delegation of Tejano and American colonists declared independence from Mexico. Texas, was officially brought into existence.

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Owen J. Baggett: Native of Young County, Texas, graduate of Hardin-Simmons University, took down a Japanese Zero with a .45 caliber 1911 handgun while parachuting to the ground after his B-24 was shot down over Burma in 1943.

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March 15, 1836: An estimated 150 Texas Revolutionary troops are defeated or captured by Mexican General Urrea at the Mission Refugio in present Refugio. Urrea sustained heavy losses, 40 of whom were conscripted Yucatan prisoners that were buried in a mass grave.

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My granddaddy had a still. A Texas history page posted a photo of the bust (back in ‘56) before mama was born. For a long time it was one of the largest busts in the county.

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early Texas court document. Nacogdoches 1826

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Marfa, Texas. 1890.

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Thriving Downtown- Smiley, Texas

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Indianola, a town in Texas which doesn't exist anymore that was wiped out by a hurricane and was rebuilt only to be completely wiped out once again.

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The Mason County Jail, built in 1894 and still in use today.

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US Troop C, 3rd Cavalry at Fort Brown, Brownsville ca 1914

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Large parts of central Texas are platted on what appears to be arbitrary diagonals. Anyone know how this came to be?

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Boris Yeltsin visits a Randalls in Houston, 1989

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