Bruce M. Shackelford
Photography of the South Texas Frontier
Images from the Witte Museum Collection
San Antonio 2007
Stron 103, format: 26x26 cm
71 reprodukcji fotografii
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Aging South Texas pioneers and their families were looking for a safe repository for their photographs and artifacts just as San Antonio's Witte Museum was being established in 1926. One result is the Witte's collection of South Texas photography, which now numbers more than 5,000 images. The oldest image, a daguerreotype, was macie in 1849, less than twenty years after the birth of photography. It pictures Major General William Jenkins Worth, a Mexican War hero for whom the city of Fort Worth is named.
Images of others in South Texas appear in tintypes, then cabinet cards, autochromes, photo postcards and snapshots. Firewood vendors pause with their burros in Laredo. The imprisoned Geronimo leans against a wall at Fort Sam Houston. Textile designers work in Brownsville. Mrs. Favre's piano class picnics in San Antonio. In Starr County, a water hauler rides atop his wagon. In Atascosa County, J. Frank Dobie lounges beside a fence.
These carefully selected images both document the evolution of photography and offer unique perspectives on a distinctive frontier.
CONTENTS
Preface ........................................vi
LA New Frontier for Photography..................1
2. A Trip to South Texas..........................21
3. South Texans at Work..........................47
4. South Texans at Play...........................71
5. The Evolving Photo Album......................85
6. Jack Specht on the "New" Frontier................93
List of Illustrations.............................102
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