Lost & Found in Texas

Original photos found here, left or lost from all over. Exhibited in local libraries & venues. All pics my collection. Select items posted here. DM to book🤠

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One of my own photos: an abandoned cafe in Glenrio, Texas. Glenrio is on the old Route 66, smack dab up against the New Mexico border, and I stood on that famed stretch of road when I took this photo in 2009. I wonder how many cups of coffee were consumed here!

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

I hope y'all find this as interesting as I did. This photo was sent in by Traces of Texas reader Chris Hogg. It is of four unidentified graves that he ran across a few years ago while working on a ranch in the oil fields of southeastern Howard County.

The graves belong to a woman and three children who died of cholera while traveling with a wagon train in the mid 1800's. Their names have long since faded from the sandstone used as headstones and nobody knows who they were. But that hasn't kept the ranch from maintaining the graves for well over 100 years now. They built a fence around it and they keep the weeds down.

Just Texans being Texans. Makes me proud to live here. It kind of brings a little lump to my throat, thinking of these people and the way they lived and the suffering and how they've been cared for all these years by folks who never knew them. Thanks to Chris for sending this to me!

[Lost & Found in Texas @lostfoundtexas]

@WFStrong Hey!! I recognize that great voice! Hope to hear it for years to come!

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The biggest celebration of a Dallas Cowboys may be over 554 miles from AT&T Stadium: La Patida in Brownsville.

Learn how Mexican Americans came to embrace America's Team: https://t.co/8EmdwRBnlV

[Daniel Troppy @danieltroppy]

Photograph of a shoemaker, more specifically a boot maker! Taken in Raymondville TX in 2023.

This is a gelatin silver print photograph.

#photography #blacknwhite #TX

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Commentary: Found in translation https://t.co/5paewSpBJA

[Lost & Found in Texas @lostfoundtexas]

@WFStrong Thank you for this🤠👍

[Phillip White @PhillipBrandon]

@TexasStandard I'm going to need a link to audio, transcript —and hell— maybe a wall poster of today's @WFStrong 's Stories From Texas about book bans decades ago.

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Commentary: On censorship https://t.co/0nZSYLE3Df

[Lost & Found in Texas @lostfoundtexas]

@WFStrong Great to see you and family! All the best to you today and always🤠

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Great Texas Country Reporter Festival in Waxahachie.

[McAllen Library @mcallenlibrary]

Would you like to join Team McAllen? The City of McAllen-Human Resources will be hosting a Job Fair on Wed, Nov 1 from 2-6PM at Main Library. Learn about full-time, part-time, & seasonal positions available throughout the city! It's your chance to become part of our amazing team!

[Texas Highways Magazine @TexasHighways]

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 We've rounded up a few of our spookiest stories to celebrate.

First, check out our round-up of five of the most haunted locations in Texas. https://t.co/TTc5H2jbfT

[Texas State Historical Association @TxStHistAssoc]

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[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

The 6666 Ranch, recently bought by an ownership group led by director Taylor Sheridan, is HUGE. With 3 divisions totaling 266,000 acres, it’s larger than San Antonio, nearly twice the size of Chicago, and about six times the size of Brooklyn.

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Vaqueros in Laredo circa 1905. Incredible faces, incredible photo.

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Traces reader Andi Jennings Spencer shared this heartwarming photo of her grandparents, Tommie Lee & Herbert Jennings of Boyd, Texas. He was a peanut farmer & a rancher (Hereford cattle). This comes from a negative Andi found in their home after both died. What a nice surprise!

[Oklahoma Historical Society @okhistory]

“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.” –Will Rogers

Photo of an unidentified man with puppies on his lap in Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1901
(Heye Foundation Collection, OHS) #DogDay #NationalDogDay