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Call Number:

PH-00192

Collection Name:

Waco, Texas, Photography Collection

No. of Items:

63 items

Span Dates:

circa 1930

Description:

The collection consists of 12 prints and 47 nitrate (removed to nitrate storage) negatives, and 4 glass negatives of street scenes from Waco, Texas, a blacksmith shop, filming of a movie, Tom Mix at a gravesite, and an aerial view of a community hit by a tornado. Unidentified photographer(s). Time period represented circa 1930.

Accession No(s):

958:0061:0001-0063

Location(s):

Waco, Texas, Box (958:0061:0001-0012)
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Curatorial permission required Cabinet Storage (glass negatives)
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Curatorial permission required Cold storage (Nitrate negatives)
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