Texas Journey The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith

Name: Texas Journey The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith
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ISBN: 9780980055702

ISBN-10: 0980055709

ISBN-13: 9780980055702

Edition: 2008

Authors: Evelyn Barker

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In 1935, Texas was preparing for its biggest celebration to date: a world's fair to commemorate the centennial of its independence from Mexico. Centennial officials eager to publicize the event needed an abundance of photographic images that would put the state in the best possible light. They hired a young photographer, Polly Smith, who had recently returned from studying in New York, to travel the length and width of the state. Her mission was to capture the people and places that made Texas unique. The result of Smith's journey is a remarkable collection of images that range from the missions of San Antonio to dockworkers in Houston and on to the cotton fields of East Texas. Only…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Dallas Historical Society
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 9.85" wide x 9.70" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.860
Language: English

Drawing from the rich visual collections of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections, authors Evelyn Barker and Lea Worcester look back over a century of exceptional education on the site of what is today the second-largest institution in the UT system.




Texas in the 1930s



Family Is Everything



A Home at Last



The Myths of Woman Photographers and Texas



Traveling Texas



I Have Never Been Sold on a Career


Images


Appendix


Index


Bibliography


Notes